In the history of art, Quatremère de Quincy is one of the names that keeps being returned to.
The record lists Quatremère de Quincy as French archaeologist, architect and writer (1755–1849).
Quatremère de Quincy was born at Paris in 1755. His recorded nationality is France.
Academies set the rules in this period - what counted as a serious subject, and who was allowed to train.
He worked as politician, art historian and archaeologist.
Looking is a skill, and the artists who last are those who taught their audience how to do it.
That the work was made in France shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Quatremère de Quincy died in 1849, aged 94. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
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