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Matthijs Musson (Antwerp, 1598–3 November 1678) was a painter and art dealer based in Antwerp, who played an important role in popularizing artists of the 17th-century Antwerp school by marketing them throughout Europe.〔J. de Maere, Jennifer A. Martin, and Marie Wabbes. ''Illustrated Dictionary of 17th Century Flemish Painters''. Brussels: Renaissance du livre, 1994; p. 294. ISBN 2-8041-1858-4〕 ==Life== Matthijs Musson was born in Antwerp as the son of Robert Musson, an innkeeper. Matthijs is possibly a pupil in the workshop of Rubens and becomes a master in the Antwer Guild of Saint Luke in 1622.〔Stefan de VRIES, ''Le commerce de l’art entre les Flandres et l’Espagne, 1648-1713'', Master thesis 1: Histoire de l’art Université Paris Sorbonne-Paris IV UFR Histoire de l’Art et Archéologie, 2007 〕〔(Matthijs Musson ) at the Netherlands Institute for Art History 〕 Matthijs married on 24 February 1632 Maria Borremans who died on 12 May 1646 without issue. In the year 1646-1647 he was deacon of the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke.〔Karlien Jordens, ''Het management van een zeventiende eeuwse kunstfirma. Case study: de Firma Forchoudt'', Master thesis submitted in 2009 - 2010 at the Rijksuniversiteit Gent 〕 Musson remarried on 15 September 1647 Maria Fourmenois who had been widowed two times before. Her last husband was the glass and ebony dealer Cornelis de Wael.〔 After his marriage to Fourmenois, Musson started to deal in art and his wife played an important role in this trading business.〔 Musson had contacts with dealers throughout Europe. In Flanders, he was active mainly in Antwerp and Brussels. About 60 painters worked for Musson and Fourmenois including Joos de Momper, David Teniers the Younger, Abraham Willemsens, Victor Wolfvoet II and Willem van Herp. After discovering that works of painters from Mechelen, a city situated between Brussels and Antwerp, were of high quality and relatively inexpensive he started sourcing from this city. As a trained painter, he did not limit himself to trading. He gave detailed instructions to his artists and for instance paid Pieter van Lint to make changes to a human figure in one of his paintings.〔〔(Abraham Willemsens (active 1627-1672), A peasant family in a yard ) at Christies〕 In 1657 Matthijs Musson bought the art works from the estate of Frans Snyders, which included great works by Rubens and van Dyck as well as examples by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Joachim Patinir, Jan Brueghel the Younger, Joos van Cleve and Frans Ykens.〔(Frans Snyders (Antwerp 1579-1657), 'A partridge, snipe, sparrow, finch, and other birds with a basket of grapes and langoustines in Wan-li kraak porcelain bowls, a mounted stoneware jug, saltcellar, and glasses on a tabletop ) at Christie's〕 Many of his correspondences have been published and studies of his business relationships with other dealers across Europe have contributed to an understanding of the 17th-century art trade and its economics.〔〔Neil De Marchi, Hans J. Van Miegroet and Matthew E. Raiff, "Dealer-Dealer Pricing in the Mid Seventeenth-Century Antwerp to Paris Art Trade," in Michael North and David Ormrod, ''Art Markets in Europe, 1400-1800'', Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998; pp. 113–130. ISBN 1-84014-630-3〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Matthijs Musson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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