Para além da Pintura. Alguns apontamentos sobre as outras coleções do conde Daupias

Abstract

The French-Portuguese Pedro Eugénio Daupias (1818-1900), 1st Viscount and 1st Count Daupias, was one of the most important collectors in Portugal in the last quarter of the 19th century. Of the collections he gathered, the one on painting, for the excellent quality of some of its pieces, is the one that gets the attention from art historians, being aligned with the Parisian taste, even if his eclectic taste led him to collect all kinds of artistic objects: sculpture, ceramics, textiles, furniture, silverware and miscellaneous. In this paper we will make a brief descriptive analysis of his various collections, with reference to the objects commented by the Count Gallery visitors or referred to with specific descriptions in exhibitions or auction catalogues. In 1882, the Count published a catalogue dedicated to modern painting and sculpture. The dispersion of his collection began in 1892, when a selection of the best paintings was auctioned in Paris. In 1894, there was another auction dedicated to the decorative arts, again at the French capital. And ten years after the collector's death, in 1910, the remains of his collection were sold at yet another auction in Lisbon.

Keywords

• biography
• private collecting
• Count Daupias
• eclecticism