marchand mercier

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In art market: The rise of Paris
Decorative arts dealers, known as marchands merciers, were allowed to surmount the French guild restrictions that forced craftsmen to specialize and prevented, for example, cabinetmakers from supplying the brass mounts on commodes. The marchand mercier therefore became a pivotal entrepreneurial figure in French furniture making, supplying capital, negotiating with customers,…
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In art market: The rise of Paris
…best known of the 18th-century marchands merciers were Lazare Duvaux and the partners Simon-Philippe Poirier and Dominique Daguerre, all of whom had shops in the fashionable rue Saint-Honoré. Daguerre played a central role in the Anglo-French art market in the 1780s, acting simultaneously as the agent for Wedgwood in Paris…
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