Thoré-Bürger

Publications on Théophile Thoré (W. Bürger)

'"It is not my fault if in all the private collections, the Dutch paintings surpass all.” Thoré-Bürger’s promotion of Dutch art in the Parisian art market of the 1860’s’ in Ed. Susan Bracken and Adriana Turpin, Art Markets, Agents and Collectors. Collecting Strategies in Europe and the United States, 1550-1950, N.Y.Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2021, (pp.201-213) - PDF Download
‘Barthold Suermondt und W.Bürger (Théophile Thoré). Freundschaft einer geteilten “monomania de tableaux”’. Essay for exhibition catalogue Gestatten, Suermondt! Sammler, Kenner Kunstmãzen. Ed. Peter van den Brink und Wibke Vera Birth, Aachen, Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum, 8 March – 17 June 2018. (pp.62-77)
‘The Goldfinch’s Travels: Fact and fiction’ Collecting for the Public: Works that Made a Difference. Essays for Peter Hecht; Ed Bart Cornelis, Ger Luijten, Louis van Tiborgh & Tim Zeedijk) publ. Paul Holberton, 2016. (pp. 72-77.) - PDF Download
‘Thoré-Bürger: Rembrandt to the rescue – side by side with Raphael', “Gij zult niet feestbundelen. 34 Bijdragen voor Peter Hecht, Amsterdam 2016, (pp.92-101) - PDF Download
‘"Ah! Que c’est francais!": Thoré-Bürger and Eighteenth-century French Art’ in Ed. Christoph Vogtherr, Monica Preti, Guillaume Faroult, Delicious Decadence – The Rediscovery of French Eighteenth-Century Painting in the Nineteenth Century, Ashsgate Publishing, Farnham, Surrey & Burlington, Vermont. 2014. (pp.71-85) - PDF Download

‘Thoré-Bürger and the Modernity of Seventeenth-century Dutch Art' (with special reference to Frans Hals) in Ed. Victoria von Flemming und Alma-Elisa Kittner, Barock – Moderne –Postmodern: ungeklärte Beziehungen Wiesbaden 2014, (pp.75-92) - PDF Download
‘Thoré-Bürger: homme de lettres ou homme politique?’ in Ed.Ingrid Goddeeris & Noemie Goldman, Animateur d’Art Brussels, 2015, (pp.57-68) Proceedings of an international symposium organized by Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, 25-26 October 2012 - PDF Download
‘Impressionism and the Golden Age of Dutch Art’, Essay for exhibition catalogue, Inspiring Impressionism. The Impressionists and the Art of the Past, (ed. Ann Dumas, Denver Art Museum and Yale University Press, 2007-8, (pp.79-109) - PDF Download (Reprinted by permission of the Denver Art Museum ©)
Entry on Thoré-Bùrger for Dictionnaire critique des historiens de l’art actifs en France de la Révolution à la Première Guerre mondiale, Dir. Philippe Sénéchal, Claire Barbillon, Paris, site web de l’INHA, 2009 - Read Article
‘Thoré-Bürger et la découverte du Chardonneret’, Carel Fabritius et l’age d’or de Delft, Dossier de l’Art, 114, Editions Faton, Dijon, 2004, pp.40-43
‘Thoré-Bürger’s art collection: “A Rather Unusual Gallery Of Bric-à-Brac”, Simiolus Netherlands quarterly for the history of art. Volume 30, 2003, pp.54-119 - Read Article
‘From Thoré to Bürger: The Image Of Dutch Art Before And After The Musées de la Hollande’. Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum, 2001, no.1, (pp.45-60). For symposium The Shifting Image of the Golden Age at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 29-30 May 2000
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'"Le Voilà en France": Géricault according to Thoré.' in Ed. Régis Michel Géricault. Conférence et Colloque, 2 vols, La Documentation Francaise, Paris, 1996, vol. 1, (pp.777-795 . Proceedings of symposium held at the Louvre, Paris, 14-17 November 1991
'Vermeer and Thoré-Bürger: Recoveries of Reputation', Vermeer Studies, Ed. Ivan Gaskell and Michiel Jonker , National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1998, (pp.35-57.) Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts. Symposium Papers XXXIII; conference at the Mauritshuis, The Hague, 30-31 May, 1996 - Read Article
Entry on Théophile Thoré for the Grove Dictionary of Art, 1996; subsequently published online 2003

L. Flameng Portrait of W.Bürger - 1870

'Thoré-Bürger and Vermeer: Critical and Commercial Fortunes', in Shop Talk. Studies in Honor of Seymour Slive, Cambridge, Mass., 1995, (pp.124-127)
'Thoré-Bürger - A Critical Role In The Art Market', The Burlington Magazine, CXXXVIII, 1996, pp.115-129 (expanded version of paper for international conference on The History of the Art Market in Europe 1400-1900 held at the National Gallery, London, 9-10 December 1994) - Read Article
'Politique et Esthétique: Du Citoyen Thoré à William Bürger', La Critique d'Art en France, 1850-1900, Actes du colloque de Clermont-Ferrand, 25,26,27 mai 1987, reunis et présentés par Jean-Paul Bouillon, 1989, (pp.25-41)
'The Rediscovery of Frans Hals'. Catalogue essay for exhibition catalogue, Frans Hals (ed Seymour Slive) Washington, National Gallery; London, Royal Academy; Haarlem, Frans Halsmuseum, 1989-90, pp.61-86 - PDF Download (Copyright © 1989 Royal Academy Arts, London’)
"Thoré-Bürger and Realism": Scottish Art Review, vol XV, no.4, November 1982; synopsis of paper given at symposium The Realist Tradition held at the University of Glasgow in December 1981, in connection with current exhibition at Glasgow City Art Gallery
Thoré-Bürger and the Art of the Past, Garland Publishing, New York and London, 1977 (doctoral thesis, Harvard University, 1971)
'Thoré-Bürger and the Revival of Frans Hals', Art Bulletin, LVI, 1974, pp.101-117. - Read Article
Vermeer at the Rijksmuseum 2023: Thoré-Bûrger Airbrushed Out'. Simiolus. Netherlands quarterly for the history of art, Vol, 45, 2023-2024, Number 3/4, pp.284-294. - PDF Download