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Dmitrieva, Sofya, Castor, Markus A. and Klammt, Anne (Eds.): The Académie Royale Art Collection: Vol. I Reception Pieces, Heidelberg: arthistoricum.net, 2025 (Passages online, Volume 32). https://doi.org/10.11588/arthistoricum.1526

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07/02/2025

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Sofya Dmitrieva (Ed.), Markus A. Castor (Ed.), Anne Klammt (Ed.)

The Académie Royale Art Collection

Vol. I Reception Pieces

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This first volume of a series exploring the history, composition, and arrangement of the art collection of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture focusses on the reception pieces. From its founding in 1648 to its dissolution in 1793, the Académie royale amassed a collection of more than 15 000 artworks: reception pieces, donated artworks, commissioned portraits of the Académie’s patrons, paintings and bas-reliefs awarded the Prix de Rome, académie drawings, plaster casts of classical sculptures, and other objects. Today, these works provide valuable insights into the aesthetic canons, educational practices, and behind-the-scenes networks. The reception pieces, which, throughout its century-and-a-half history, remain the conceptual core of the collection. Embodying the Académie’s admission practices and internal hierarchies, reception pieces are key to understanding the collection as a whole, as well as fascinating and often overlooked objects of study in their own right. In this volume, Hannah Williams, Melissa Hyde, Catherine Girard, Mark Ledbury, Susanna Caviglia, Yuriko Jackall, Alden Gordon, and Antoine Gallay explore the role of reception pieces for the Académie, the academicians, and beyond.

Sofya Dmitrieva is a historian of art and visual culture, specialising in eighteenth-century France. Her research interests span genre theory, perception studies, and the history of collections. Currently, Sofya serves as a Non-Stipendiary Junior Research Fellow in European Languages at St Edmund Hall (University of Oxford) and as an Astra Foundation Research Assistant in Digital Iconography at the Voltaire Foundation. In this role, she is developing an open-access digital archive of visual representations of Voltaire. Before coming to Oxford, Sofya worked for the Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte (DFK Paris), where she was responsible for devising and creating The Art Collection of the French Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture database. Sofya holds a PhD in Art History from the University of St Andrews

Markus A. Castor studied Art History, Classical Archaeology and Philosophy at the Universities of Trier, Freiburg i.Br. and Constance. After gaining his doctorate in 1991, he worked as a researcher at the German Bundestag, as assistant professor at the University of Freiburg and as a researcher at the Institute for Italian Studies at the TU Dresden. Since 2006 research director at the DFK Paris, he is working on the art of the Ancien Regime.

Anne Klammt studied prehistory and early history at the University of Hamburg and worked as an archaeologist for the German Archaeological Institute, Cairo Department and the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Office for Culture and Monument Preservation. She taught at the Universities of Göttingen and Regensburg, where she completed her doctorate in 2012. She was coordinator for the Archaeological Museum Hamburg, managing director of the Mainz Centre for Digital Humanities, scientific coordinator of the CLARIAH-DE project of the Göttingen State and University Library and research director at the DFK Paris before moving to the Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarianism Research in Dresden.

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Table of Contents
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Front Matter
Table of Contents
Preface
8-11
Sofya Dmitrieva
Introduction
12-59
Hannah Williams
A Room of Portraits: Insiders and Outsiders at the Académie
60-83
Melissa Hyde
Académiciennes in the Académie’s Collection
84-135
Catherine Girard
The Metapictorial Effect of Rosalba Carriera’s Reception Piece
136-161
Mark Ledbury
Substitute: History Painting and its Others
162-197
Susanna Caviglia, Yuriko Jackall
An Artistic Manifesto: Jean-Baptiste Santerre’s Susanna at the Bath (1704) and the Re-Making of History Painting
198-225
Antoine Gallay
Between Allegiance and Self-Fashioning: Israël Silvestre’s Print Album Donated to the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture
226-263
Alden R. Gordon
Drawings in the Royal Collections and the Royal Academies in the Louvre in the 18th Century
264-288
Credits
289-290

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