Abstract
Through a close study of artist' portraits, this essay explores intimate relationship that developed at the Academie Royale in eigtheenth-century Paris. Written as three stories about six artista, the essay examines three diferent kinds of intimate relationship: family (with Jean-Marc Nattier and his son-in-law Louis Tocque); friendship (with Jean-Baptiste Greuze and Johann-Georg Wille); and rivalry (with Maurice-Quentin de La Tour and Jean-Baptiste Perronneau). Traced through and told via the portraits that the artists made of themselves and each other, these stories of academic intimacies reconstruct something of the complex social networks of artists in early modern Paris, and reveal the crucial role played by art objects in the negotiation of their relationships. Combining art-historical and microhistorical approached in a step towards a more intimate understanding of the Academie Royale as an artistic community, this essay alo offers insights into the unique value an
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