Salvage and Speculation: The London Art Market After the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71)
(2020)
Book Chapter
Stammers, T. (2021). Salvage and Speculation: The London Art Market After the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71). In K. Hill (Ed.), Museums, modernity and conflict : museums and collections in and of war since the nineteenth century (15-38). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429295782-2
The aptly named année terrible 1870–1871 – which comprised the Franco-Prussian War, the Siege of Paris and the insurrection and civil war of the Paris Commune – had dramatic consequences for the conservation and dispersal of French works of art. The... Read More about Salvage and Speculation: The London Art Market After the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71).