title: [The market at the heart of the invention of the museum ? : Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Lebrun at the Louvre (1792-1802)].
abstract: Before Vivant Denon, the dealer Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Lebrun played a crucial role in the creation of the Louvre collections, despite the revolutionary discourse which opposed the market to the museum. Lebrun's position as a polemicist is interpreted here as a strategy of self-presentation which made possible the controversial birth of the figure of the museum expert. With Lebrun, the Louvre imposed itself as a public space of artistic expertise, where values imported from the market - such as attributionism, materiality, and authenticity - became prominent in the evaluation of paintings.
authors.affiliation: Université Lille-3, CNRS, UMR 8529, BP 60 149, F-59653, Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex, France, charlotte.guichard@wanadoo.fr.
authors.forename: Charlotte
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Guichard