Le marché de l'art aux Pays-Bas, XVe et XVIe siècles

The Art Market in the Netherlands XVth and XVIth Centuries. This paper explores various channels through which artists marketed their wares in the Netherlands in the 15th and 16th centuries. Of these the principal were for the artist to work directly on order for the customer or to produce wares for some as yet unknown customer "on spec". The different economic factors that would incline transactions in works of art toward either of these channels are explored in detail including the cost advantages of mechanical reproduction for works destined to be placed on an anonymous market number of hybrid forms works that are brought to market partially completed and then finished on orders are also considered. The role of fairs in marketing sculpted retables mainly for an anonymous clientele is analysed in terms of these choices.Montias John Michael. Le marché de l'art aux Pays-Bas, XVe et XVIe siècles. In: Annales. Economies, sociétés, civilisations. 48ᵉ année, N. 6, 1993. pp. 1541-1563