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Biography
Frédéric Spitzer was born in 1815 to a noteworthy bourgeois Austrian family. In 1852 he relocated from Vienna to Paris where he first occupied an apartment at 104 rue de Richelieu. He was an active collector whose objects came primarily from other renowned collections--those of Louis Fidel Debruge-Duménil, Prince Soltykoff, Baron Seillière, Alessandro Castellani, and Julien Gréau. At the time of the baron's death his house on rue Villejust was known as the Musée Spitzer. His collection of some 4,000 items was dispersed in 1893.Bibliography
- 1881
- Bonnaff, Edmond, Claudius Popelin, Spire Blondel and Alfred Darcel. Gazette des Beaux-Arts 23-25 (April, August, October 1881 and February 1882)
- 1890
- Spitzer, Frédéric. La Collection Spitzer. Intro. by Eugène Müntz. 6 vols. Paris, 1890-1892.
- 1893
- Catalogue des objets d'art et de haute curiosité composant l'important et précieuse collection Spitzer. Paris, 1893.
- 1957
- Coche de la Ferté, Étienne. "Un grand bourgeois amateur au XIXe siècle." L'Oeil 31/32 (Summer 1957): 20-25.
- 1961
- Rheims, Maurice. The Strange Life of Objects; 35 Centuries of Art Collecting & Collectors. Trans. from French by David Pryce-Jones. New York, 1961: 27.
- 1961
- Seligman, Germain. Merchants of Art. New York, 1961: 14.
- 1989
- Musée du Louvre. Les Donateurs du Louvre. Paris, 1989: 326.