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[caption id="attachment_9436" align="aligncenter" width="348"] WALCZAK Gerrit, Artistische Wanderer : Die Künstler(e)migranten der Französischen Revolution, Berlin, Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2019, 448 p.[/caption]Présentation de l'éditeur :Dozens of painters were part of the emigration occasioned by the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789. Whether French or foreigners established in France, these artists were driven out of the country by the rapid demise of the art market in the wake of political instability. Yet the dynamics of radicalization and war soon eroded distinction between economic migration and political exile.Whether officially designated as émigrés or not, painters such as Élisabeth Vigée-Le Brun, Jean-Laurent Mosnier, Henri-Pierre Danloux, François-Xavier Fabre, and Louis Gauffier practiced their profession in Rome and Florence, London, Hamburg and Saint Petersburg. Whilst some of them established themselves in their host countries until the end of the Revolution, others successively transferred between the European metropoles. This first comprehensive study of the Revolution’s “artistic wanderers”—a term coined in Hamburg in 1799—traces their transnational itineraries and investigates productions shaped by transfer, acculturation, and innovation.Gerrit Walczak is habilitated adjunct professor (Privatdozent) of art history at the Technical University Berlin, and has previously taught at the universities of Bochum, Köln, and Greifswald. He presently serves as interim editor of the Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte. His research focuses on the transnational migration of artists, on 18th-century art, its academies, and the art market. He is the author of Bürgerkünstler: Künstler, Staat und Öffentlichkeit im Paris der Aufklärung und Revolution (Deutscher Kunstverlag 2015).C O N T E N T SHere translated from the German1  Introduction: Revolution and MobilityMigration, Emigration, and ExileItinerant Artists and their TrajectoriesArt Markets and Exile Art2  Paris: The Initial Conditions of Artistic EmigrationThe Fiction of EscapeEconomy and ViolenceAnti-Emigration Laws and Repression3  Rome: The French Academy and the RevolutionRome and Paris until the Fall of the MonarchyCommission and AppropriationsThe End of the French Academy and its Fallout4  Florence: Exiles, Tourists, and OccupiersHistory Paintings for ForeignersTuscan LandscapesFrench Grand Tour-Portraiture5  London: Rivalries and ConfrontationsGenius lociAcculturation and its LimitsPolitical Stances6  Hamburg: A Place of PassageThe Lure of Boom EconomyTradesmen and other ClientsReception and Receptivity7  Saint Petersburg: Integration / ExtractionProviders to the Imperial CourtModes of TransferFlux and Reflux8  Coda: Re-migrationsThe Salon of 1802HumiliationsSouvenirs