Rochelle Ziskin is Professor of Art History at the University of Missouri–Kansas City.

• ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction1Cultural Geography of the French Capital Circa 17002Cloistered in the Faubourg Saint-Germain3The Maison Crozat Transformed4A Circle of “Moderns” 5The Regent and Collecting on the Right Bank6Les Anciens and an Expanding Public Realm in the Arts7The Circles Converge: Carignan and JullienneConclusionNote on the AppendixesAppendixes1Maison Crozat, rue de Richelieu, in 17402Hôtel de Verrue, rue du Cherche-Midi, end of 17363Collections of Lériget de La Faye, Glucq de Saint-Port, and Lassay4Collections of Nocé and Fonspertuis5Hôtel de Morville, rue Plâtrière, in 17326Selections from the Collection of CarignanNotesSelected BibliographyIndex

“Rochelle Ziskin’s learned study brings to vibrant life the extensive social and political networks out of which two major early eighteenth-century Parisian art collections grew, and it reveals how the practices that built each collection were decisively shaped by the ideals of these overlapping networks—as well as by the conflicts that sometimes divided them. In this way, Ziskin elegantly enriches our understanding of what was at stake in the subtle distinctions that characterized the varieties of contemporary elite taste, and she significantly enlarges our knowledge of the intricate cultural politics of Louis XV’s Regency.”—Richard Wittman, University of California, Santa Barbara

Rochelle Ziskin is Professor of Art History at the University of Missouri–Kansas City.

• ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction1Cultural Geography of the French Capital Circa 17002Cloistered in the Faubourg Saint-Germain3The Maison Crozat Transformed4A Circle of “Moderns” 5The Regent and Collecting on the Right Bank6Les Anciens and an Expanding Public Realm in the Arts7The Circles Converge: Carignan and JullienneConclusionNote on the AppendixesAppendixes1Maison Crozat, rue de Richelieu, in 17402Hôtel de Verrue, rue du Cherche-Midi, end of 17363Collections of Lériget de La Faye, Glucq de Saint-Port, and Lassay4Collections of Nocé and Fonspertuis5Hôtel de Morville, rue Plâtrière, in 17326Selections from the Collection of CarignanNotesSelected BibliographyIndex

“Rochelle Ziskin’s learned study brings to vibrant life the extensive social and political networks out of which two major early eighteenth-century Parisian art collections grew, and it reveals how the practices that built each collection were decisively shaped by the ideals of these overlapping networks—as well as by the conflicts that sometimes divided them. In this way, Ziskin elegantly enriches our understanding of what was at stake in the subtle distinctions that characterized the varieties of contemporary elite taste, and she significantly enlarges our knowledge of the intricate cultural politics of Louis XV’s Regency.”—Richard Wittman, University of California, Santa Barbara

Rochelle Ziskin is Professor of Art History at the University of Missouri–Kansas City.

• ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction1Cultural Geography of the French Capital Circa 17002Cloistered in the Faubourg Saint-Germain3The Maison Crozat Transformed4A Circle of “Moderns” 5The Regent and Collecting on the Right Bank6Les Anciens and an Expanding Public Realm in the Arts7The Circles Converge: Carignan and JullienneConclusionNote on the AppendixesAppendixes1Maison Crozat, rue de Richelieu, in 17402Hôtel de Verrue, rue du Cherche-Midi, end of 17363Collections of Lériget de La Faye, Glucq de Saint-Port, and Lassay4Collections of Nocé and Fonspertuis5Hôtel de Morville, rue Plâtrière, in 17326Selections from the Collection of CarignanNotesSelected BibliographyIndex

“Rochelle Ziskin’s learned study brings to vibrant life the extensive social and political networks out of which two major early eighteenth-century Parisian art collections grew, and it reveals how the practices that built each collection were decisively shaped by the ideals of these overlapping networks—as well as by the conflicts that sometimes divided them. In this way, Ziskin elegantly enriches our understanding of what was at stake in the subtle distinctions that characterized the varieties of contemporary elite taste, and she significantly enlarges our knowledge of the intricate cultural politics of Louis XV’s Regency.”—Richard Wittman, University of California, Santa Barbara