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Slavery and the Invention of Dutch Art
Duke University Press
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ISBN electronic:
978-1-4780-6031-4
Publication date:
2025
Book Chapter
Art Markets and Futures Speculation
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Published:January 2025
Chapter 1, “Art Markets and Futures Speculation,” studies the rise of one of the first global art markets, built on financial speculation and the rise of the transatlantic slave trade. Focusing on the maritime works of Hercules Segers (1589–1638) and Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–69), this chapter considers how the rise of the artists’ conception of self and property, as often discussed in the work of Rembrandt’s workshop, cannot be separated from the simultaneous development of the trade in humans as chattel property.
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