Mapping Paris Artists and their Neighbourhoods in the 18th Century IHR Digital History Seminar 19 April 2016 Dr Hannah Williams Queen Mary University of London
Gobert , Louis II Boullogne , 1701 Wertm üller , Jean-Jacques Caffieri , 1784 Roslin , Hyacinthe Collin de Vermont , 1753 L-M Van Loo, Self-Portrait with a portrait of his father, Jean-Baptiste , 1762 L-M Van Loo, Carle Van Loo with his family , 1757
Etienne Jeaurat , Interior of an artist’s studio , 1755 Jean- Honoré Fragonard’s colour box Saint- Sulpice , Paris Parish church to many 18 th -century artists
Neighbourhoods in Modern Paris: Quartier de l’Europe Caillebotte , Place de l’Europe , 1877 Monet, Pont de l’Europe , 1877 Manet , Rue Mosnier seen from his studio on Rue de St Petersbourg , 1878 Pablo Picasso, The Artist’s Salon, 23 rue La Bo étie , 1918-19 Edgar Degas, Renoir in Mallarmé’s apartment at 89 Rue de Rome , 1895 Anonymous, Photograph of Henri Gervex in his studio at 62 Rue de Rome , c.1895-97
John Milner, The Studios of Paris: The Capital of Art in the late Nineteenth-Century (New Haven & London, Yale University Press, 1988) Ellen Williams, The Impressionists’ Paris: Walking Tours of the Painters’ Studios, Homes, and the Sites the Painted (New York: The Little Bookroom , 1997)
KEY AIMS to find archival sources recording artists’ addresses (and extract that information into a usable form) to plot addresses on ( georeferenced historical) maps to make maps and data available online through interactive platform
Archival sources of artists’ addresses Almanach (1791) Acad émie’s own membership records (1726)
List of Académie members (and their addresses) in 1726
Turgot, Map of Paris (detail of Louvre), 1739 Aerial view of Louvre , 2015
www.digitalharlem.org
Esnauts & Rapilly , Nouveau plan routier de […] Paris , 1787 Guillaume de L’Isle , Plan de Paris , 1742
Guillaume de L’Isle , Plan de Paris , 1742 Junié , Plan de Paris , 1786
Guillaume de L’Isle , Plan de Paris , 1742 – Rectified using Map Warper Junié , Plan de Paris , 1786 – Rectified using Map Warper
Addresses plotted on georeferenced map using GeoJSON
NYPL Labs – Mauricio Giraldo Arteaga’s Digital Mapping Primer http :// www.nypl.org /blog/2015/01/05/web-maps-primer
Addresses plotted on georeferenced map using GeoJSON
1749-1753 Rue de Richelieu 1744-1748 Rue de Grenelle 1753-1770 Logement in the Louvre 1735-1743 Rue Saint Thomas