List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction 1 Describing the Amateur: Fin-de-Siècle Sales Catalogues 1 The Amateur2 Love and the Amateur: Gendering the Private Collection 1 Valtesse de la Bigne and Méry Laurent3 The Art Market: Choice and Taste 1 Taste and the Amateur 2 The Taste of the Amateur4 The Private Collection and the Museum 1 The Museum: Orderly Public Display 2 Following the Guide: Walking in the Museum 3 Wandering in the Private Collection 4 The Wandering Path 5 The Garden and the Long View 6 The Musée Condé: Rewriting the Past 7 The Scholarly Collection 8 The Space of the Private Collection5 The Ensemble: the Collection as Work of Art 1 The Eclectic Collection 2 Painting a Collection 3 Metaphors of Books and Paintings 4 Conversation6 The Private Library: the Collection as Book 1 The Bibliophile as Amateur; the Book as Object 2 The Book as Object and the Bibliophile's Creative Practice 3 Photographs of the Cabinet de Travail 4 Portrait Photography in the Nineteenth Century 5 Dornac's Nos contemporains chez eux7 The Theater of Collecting Conclusion: Moreau-Nélaton: the Private Collection Goes to the Museum Sources Cited Index.