Charles Sedelmeyer

Advert for Sedelmeyer's Gallery, Paris, 1882

Charles Sedelmeyer (* 1837 ; † 1925 ) was an Austro-French art dealer and art collector .

Life

Sedelmeyer worked as an art dealer in Paris from 1866 , where he owned his own gallery. In 1901 he sold an altarpiece by Raphael , the Pala Colonna , to the American JP Morgan . The sale that year was the most expensive painting of its time. In 1893 he acquired the French Ambleville Castle . Sedelmeyer was married. His daughter Emilie married the art historian Stanislas Lami .

Sedelmeyer died at the age of 88 and was buried in the Cimetière de Montmartre .

Publications

Catalog of the celebrated Collection of Paintings, by Modern and Old Masters, and of Water-Colors and Drawings, designed by ME Secretan , sold at Sedelmeyer's Gallery, Paris, July, 1889
Illustrated Catalog of the Eighth Series of 100 Paintings by Old Masters of the Dutch, Flemish, Italian, French and English Schools , Paris 1902

literature

B. Wild: Charles Sedelmeyer: An Austrian art dealer makes a career in Paris , in: Parnass 14, No. 3 (1994), pp. 76-80
C. Huemer; Charles Sedelmeyer (1837–1925): Art and speculation on the art market in Paris , in: Belvedere: Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst , 5th year 1999, issue 2 (autumn 1999), pp. 4–19
C. Huemer: Charles Sedelmeyer's Theatricality: Art and Speculation in Late 19th-Century Paris , in: Ján Bakoš (Ed.): Artwork through the Market: The Past and the Present , Bratislava: Slovak Academy of Sciences 2004, pages 109–124
M. Theinhardtová: Charles Sedelmeyer a Václav Brozík, cesky malír historie v Parízi (Charles Sedelmeyer and Václav Brozík; a Czech painter of history in Paris), in: Václav Brozík (1851–1901) , Národní galerie v Praze. Valdstejnská jízdárna (Prague, 2003), pp. 111-29
C. Huemer: Crossing Thresholds: The Hybrid Identity of Late Nineteenth-Century Art Dealers , in: Jaynie Anderson (ed.): Crossing Cultures: Conflict-Migration-Convergence , Miegunyah Press, Melbourne 2009, pp. 1007-1011

Web links

Commons : Charles Sedelmeyer - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Collection of Dutch and Flemish paintings by old masters, owned by Mr. Charles Sedelmeyer… and imported by him for loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, by invitation of the trustees , digitized at Metropolitan Museum Publications

personal data
SURNAME	Sedelmeyer, Charles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austro-French art dealer and art collector
DATE OF BIRTH	1837
DATE OF DEATH	1925