Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Boban Collection, NAF 21478 1 Portrait of the antique dealer, painter, and collector Jean-Frédéric Waldeck with his Mexican objects.
In a liberalized art market, painters and interior decorators took charge of tidying things up and engaged in the trade in things for a clientele in search of good taste.įig. pictures, studios, and domestic interiors became increasingly confused with one another. Dafydd Roberts (London: Black Dog, 1999). A new economy of images was at work in this bourgeois act of transubstantiation: while copies of images were proliferating and migrating about as never before,Michel Foucault, “Photogenic Painting,” in Gilles Deleuze and Michel Foucault, Gérard Fromanger: Photogenic Painting, ed. Cardboard or wax accessories, like fruits, bespoke the blurring between domestic decors and fictions. Yet, still more than that, domestic interiors in their entirety resembled still lifes, accumulations of curios staged in such a way as to be evocative of the pictorial tradition in art.
The still life was a genre that was savored in nineteenth-century middle-class domestic interiors.
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