Reframing Japonisme: Women and the Asian Art Market in Nineteenth-Century France, 1853–1914

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Elizabeth Emery (Montclair State University, USA)

Reframing Japonisme

Women and the Asian Art Market in Nineteenth-Century France, 1853–1914

Elizabeth Emery (Montclair State University, USA)

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Bloomsbury Visual Arts
12 November 2020

Series: Contextualizing Art Markets

Japonisme, the nineteenth-century fascination for Japanese art, has generated an enormous body of scholarship since the beginning of the twenty-first century, but most of it neglects the women who acquired objects from the Far East and sold them to clients or displayed them in their homes before bequeathing them to museums. The stories of women shopkeepers, collectors, and artists rarely appear in memoirs left by those associated with the japoniste movement.

This volume brings to light the culturally important, yet largely forgotten activities of women such as Clémence d’Ennery (1823–1898), who began collecting Japanese and Chinese chimeras in the 1840s, built and decorated a house for them in the 1870s, and bequeathed the “Musée d’Ennery” to the state as a free public museum in 1893. A friend of the Goncourt brothers and a fifty-year patron of Parisian dealers of Asian art, d’Ennery’s struggles to gain recognition as a collector and curator serve as a lens through which to examine the collecting and display practices of other women of her day.

Travelers to Japan such as the Duchesse de Persigny, Isabella Stewart Gardner, and Laure Durand- Fardel returned with souvenirs that they shared with friends and family. Salon hostesses including Juliette Adam, Louise Cahen d’Anvers, Princesse Mathilde, and Marguerite Charpentier provided venues for the discussion and examination of Japanese art objects, as did well-known art dealers Madame Desoye, Madame Malinet, Madame Hatty, and Madame Langweil. Writers, actresses, and artists—Judith Gautier, Thérèse Bentzon, Sarah Bernhardt, and Mary Cassatt, to name just a few— took inspiration from the Japanese material in circulation to create their own unique works of art.

Largely absent from the history of Japonisme, these women—and many others—actively collected Japanese art, interacted with auction houses and art dealers, and formed collections now at the heart of museums such as the Louvre, the Musée Guimet, the Musée Cernuschi, the Musée Unterlinden, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

By: Elizabeth Emery (Montclair State University USA)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 626g
ISBN: 9781501344633
ISBN 10: 1501344633
Series: Contextualizing Art Markets
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 12 November 2020
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Series Editor’s Introduction Introduction 1. “Come on up and see my Monsters”: Chinoiseries, Japonaiseries, and the Musée d’Ennery 2. The Market for Asian Collectibles in Nineteenth-Century Paris: From Department Store to Museum 3. Vitrines: From Drawing Room to Exhibit Hall and Museum 4. The Musée d’Ennery: The Reception of a Woman’s Museum in the Parisian Press (1893–1908) Conclusion Bibliography Index

Elizabeth Emery is Professor of French at Montclair State University, USA.

Reviews for Reframing Japonisme: Women and the Asian Art Market in Nineteenth-Century France, 1853–1914

As Japonisme studies grow, Elizabeth Emery's Reframing Japonisme will gain adherents owing to the meticulous way the author has researched the field to open new insights on women's role in promoting Japanese art and culture. Her detailed detective work demonstrates that women increased the availability of Japanese objects as they established collections and museums. This pioneering book will be used for years to come by those involved in expanding the parameters of the Japonisme movement in France. * Gabriel P. Weisberg, Professor Emeritus, University of Minnesota, USA and Managing Editor, Journal of Japonisme * Emery unearths references new even to specialist scholars and her analysis of familiar images and texts reveals new, and completely compelling, insights. This book will fundamentally change the study of Japonisme. It is a huge accomplishment. * Christopher Reed, The Pennsylvania State University, USA and author of Bachelor Japanists: Japanese Aesthetics and Western Masculinities * Elizabeth Emery's book offers a revelatory new reading of the development of Japonisme in late-19th-century France. * Thomas Stammers: Review of: Elizabeth Emery: Reframing Japonisme, in: Sehepunkte (21, 10) *