Art in "The Goldfinch"
Artworks mentioned in Donna Tartt's "The Goldfinch." As this is Pinterest, read from the bottom up -- there may be MINOR SPOILERS in some of the descriptions. I am not an art history person and welcome any additions or corrections! Shoot me an e-mail at lpetelle at yahoo or visit me at laurapetelle.com
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"It's there in the light-rinsed atmosphere, the brush strokes he permits us to see, up close, for exactly what they are -- hand worked flashes of pigment, the very passage of the bristles visible -- and then, at a distance, the miracle, or the joke as Horst called it, although really it's both, the slide of transubstantiation where paint is paint and yet also feather and bone." p.766
THE LOOCKERMAN FAMILY CHIPPENDALE CARVED MAHOGANY CHEST- ON-CHEST , CASE ATTRIBUTED TO THOMAS AFFLECK (1740-1795); CARVING ATTRIBUTED TO HERCULES COURTENAY (1744-1784), PHILADELPHIA, CIRCA 1770 | Christie's
Thomas Affleck Chest-on-Chest, sold at auction for $882,500; Theo passed off Hobie's work as an Affleck chest-on-chest to Lucius Reeve, for $75,000, p.492 ("if he thought that chest was an Affleck, he has more money than sense. To pay seventy-five thousand --")
Antiques Roadshow | PBS
Drake-Front Queen Anne Highboy, New England, antique but refinished, appraised $200,000 intact, $30,000 refinished, p.496 ("We had an important drake-front highboy, Queen Anne, that during the lean days I'd tried despairingly to sell at the correct price, which on the low end was somewhere in the two hundred thousand range.")
TAPISSERIE DE LA SERIE 'LES FEMMES ILLUSTRES DE L'ANTIQUITE' , PROBABLEMENT PARIS OU AMIENS, VERS 1645, PROBABLEMENT D'APRES UN MODELE DE CHARLES POERSON | Christie's
Tapestry from Amiens, ca. 1650, p.572 & 582 (an example; "a tapestry, a good one too, eighteenth century or older, the near twin of an Amiens I'd seen at auction [for 40,000 pounds] ... [with a mythological subject].")