Matthijs Musson

Matthijs Musson: Matthijs Musson (Antwerp, 1598–3 November 1678) was a painter and art dealer based in Antwerp, who helped popularize artists of the seventeenth-century Antwerp school by marketing them throughout Europe.^[1] Many of his correspondences have been published,^[1] and studies of his business relationships other dealers across Europe have established ideas about the art trade and its economics.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b J. de Maere, Jennifer A. Martin, and Marie Wabbes. Illustrated Dictionary of 17th Century Flemish Painters. Brussels: Renaissance du livre, 1994; p. 294. ISBN 2804118584

^ Neil De Marchi, Hans J. Van Miegroet and Matthew E. Raiff, "Dealer-Dealer Pricing in the Mid Seventeenth-Century Antwerp to Paris Art Trade," in Michael North and David Ormrod, Art Markets in Europe, 1400-1800, Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998; pp. 113–130. ISBN 1840146303

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Name Musen, Matthijs

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Date of birth 1598

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Date of death 1678

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