%0 Journal Article
%T La datation des objets : quelques exemples concrets
%A Laurence de Finance
%J In Situ : Revue de Patrimoines
%D 2012
%I Minist¨¨re de la Culture et de la Communication
%R 10.4000/insitu.3513
%X Dater un objet, le resituer au temps de sa cr¨¦ation, l'¨¦lever parfois au rang de r¨¦f¨¦rent chronologique pour la datation d'autres  uvres stylistiquement comparables, est un acte important qui m¨¦rite la plus grande attention et de nombreuses v¨¦rifications. La validit¨¦ d¡¯un chronogramme, d¡¯un poin on, doit ¨ºtre v¨¦rifi¨¦e, ainsi que l'homog¨¦n¨¦it¨¦ de l' uvre. Relever les marques d'ateliers, signatures, estampilles peut conduire ¨¤ une datation approch¨¦e, ¨¤ d¨¦faut d'¨ºtre pr¨¦cise. Des ¨¦l¨¦ments iconographiques ou techniques fournissent aussi des rep¨¨res chronologiques, mais les documents d'archives (commandes, factures) quand ils sont conserv¨¦s, sont de plus s rs outils. Enfin les comparaisons stylistiques, utilis¨¦es avec prudence, permettent de proposer des fourchettes chronologiques en attendant de r¨¦unir plus de pr¨¦cisions. Le minist¨¨re de la Culture et de la Communication met en ligne des catalogues d¡¯objets dat¨¦s qui constituent autant de r¨¦f¨¦rentiels chronologiques, aides ¨¤ la datation. The act of dating an object implies the restitution of the period in which it was created. It is an act which can give the object a status as a marker for dating other objects with similar stylistic characteristics. So dating is an important process, which requires great attention and numerous verifications. The authenticity of a chronogram, of a hallmark, must be verified as must be the homogeneity if the object. Noting the marks of workshops, signatures or other identification markers can lead to approximate dating for lack of a precise year. Iconographical elements and technical features can also help date an object, but archival sources (commissions, bills), when they survive, are surer tools for dating. Stylistic comparisons are to be used with prudence, only allowing for a chronological period whilst awaiting further details. The Ministry of Culture and Communication puts on the web some catalogues of dated objects which are designed to allow for approximate dating of objects of similar style.
%K dating
%K ex-voto
%K Maurice Denis
%K Pauline Perdrau
%K sixteenth-century stained glass
%K seventeenth-century stained glass
%K seventeenth-century textiles
%K Emile Gall¨¦
%K guild hallmark
%K essay-office hallmark
%K Madeleine de Troyes
%K nineteenth- and twentieth-century painting
%K signature
%K identification mark
%K Neuilly-sur-Seine
%K Costa di Piacenza collection
%K Saint-S¨¦verin church at Paris
%K Jean-Baptiste Tuby
%K altar screen of Notre-Dame de Gray (Haute-Sa ne)
%K Saint-Geosmes (Haute-Marne)
%K Carmes convent at
%U http://insitu.revues.org/3513