Provenance in nineteenth-century Europe. Research practice and concept

Bibliographic Data

ID7994201
AuthorsEmma Hagström Molin (0009-0001-7614-2449, Uppsala University, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume32
Issue2-3
Pages96-96
Publication date2022-03-23
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueNordisk Museologi (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1103-8152 • E-ISSN: 2002-0503
PublisherUniversity of Oslo Library (PUBLISHER • NO)
DOI10.5617/nm.9611
OpenAlexW4220794995
LanguageEN
References cited13

Provenance – an object’s history of ownership – is a historically contingent concept and research practice that emerged in nineteenth-century Europe. In a novel project examining the cases of Beda Dudík (Moravia/Austria), Carl Schirren (Livonia/Russia), and Franz Hipler (Warmia/East Prussia) ca. 1850–1900 I argue that, while the art market and nationalism are important, scholars representing regions with a suppressed past and present are key to understanding the relevance of provenance. Due to seventeenth-century plundering, these scholars were dependent on foreign archives and libraries when researching their regions’ history. Their publications describing provenance research are the project’s main sources. The analysis of these publications targets practices such as classification, a crucial tool as determined provenance equaled historical existence. Merging regional inferiority and transnational dependencies, diverse institutional settings, and political, religious, and scholarly ambitions, scrutinizing these cases reveals the needs and encounters that explain the rise of provenance

Object (grammar · Political science · Politics · Provenance · Relevance (law · Sociology · Archaeological Research and Protection · Digital and Traditional Archives Management · Digital Humanities and Scholarship · History · Law · Philosophy

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