Art Market and Connoisseurship

Anna Tummers is Curator of Old Masters at the Frans Hals Museum in Haarlem. Koenraad Jonckheere is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Amsterdam.

• Table of Contents - 6 Determining Value on the Art Market in the Golden Age - 8 'By His Hand': the Paradox of 17th-Century Connoisseurship - 32 Supply and Demand: some Notes in the Economy of the 17th-Century Connoisseurship - 70 'Painters pencell move not without that musicke': proces of Southern Netherlandish Painted Altarpieces bet ween 1585 and 1650 - 98 The Painter versus the Connoisseur? The Best Judge of Pictures in 17th-Century Theory and Practice - 128 The Rise of the Dealer-Auctioneer in Paris: Information and Transparnancy in a Market for Netherlandish Paintings - 150 Plates - 177