Catalog reasoned

The catalogs reasoned of a Artiste painter or Sculpteur is the possible Inventaire most complete of its works, their localization (when it is known) and of the mention of their owners when those are of agreement (for the modern tables). A general presentation of the artist often accompanies this work, the title more the current is the name of the artist and his dates, example: Dommenchin de Chavannes, (1673-1744), its life its work , the ideal is to have the most information on the artist: its genealogy, its formation, its beginnings, its maturity, end of its life. Its critical fortune (how until today, it was perceived by criticism and the general public). One will mention his colleagues and friends, his pupils, his posterity. Documents of files will be welcome: baptismal certificate, act (S) of marriage (S), birth of the possible children, death certificate, inventory after death, sale after death.

This term was born in France, and used in the world by:

  • curators of a museum, for the drafting of the catalogs of the museums and the publications relative at their institution.
  • historians of art: general studies, or other catalogs reasoned.
  • by the professionals artistic commercial:
    • At the time of public sales: Auctioneer, Christie' S, Sotheby' S, Tajan.
    • At the time of private sales: galerist. This in order to reassure the possible purchasers and to confirm the asking prices or estimated, the inclusion or not of a work in a catalog reasoned not yet published, is capital information too.
    • At the time of inventory realized by expert .
  • By the amateurs of collection, for, inter alia, their declaration of insurance.

Sometimes, the artists held a repertory of their work, which facilitates the drafting of their reasoned catalog, one will thus mention the Liber Veritatis of Claude Gellée say the Lorraine one, the painter to whom one had presented a very skilful forgery, fact of alive sound, had had to request its memory to know so yes or not it was the author of this table, it then decided to preserve in an album of the drawings to remember as of its tables, in Italian these drawings are called riccordo . The book of account of Hyacinthe Rigaud is also an invaluable document which makes it possible to realize work of team that this workshop constituted.

The authors of the catalogs reasoned present works that they estimate authentic, they can express their doubts, in one, or several, special sections. The numbers of the allotted or doubtful tables carry a fateful letter then: R 12, for Chick, vor to say twelfth rejected table, often a table of agreement makes it possible to know which numbers carries a table according to the various authors, example for Rembrandt: Bode, Valentiner, Bredius, Bauch, Gerson, Rembrandt Research Project, the history of art then becomes a kind of mathematical play of track. Certain historians of art, knowing the fundamental works by heart, take pleasure to quote the tables according to their number, for van Gogh, for example, one will be able to read or hear: Lafaille 99 is preserved well better than Lafaille 47 ; what is of a rare poetry.

  • Pierre Rosenberg is a historian of art which led face a very beautiful career to the conservation, then to the direction of the museum of Louvre, and ensured the publication of many catalogs reasoned major artists.
Certain merchants also harness themselves with this task which makes it possible to come into contact with owners of works.
  • Marc Sandoz published of 1975 to 1988 nine catalogs reasoned of the painters of old the Royal Académie, former boarders of the School of the pupils protected by the King.

Organization of the catalogs reasoned

The reasoned term means that the historian present the corpus of the artist according to a selected order. There are several possibilities: chronological presentation or presentation by subjects. Certain artists, such Demarne have practically any stylistic evolution, the chronological approach is not adequate, its reasoned catalog organizes themselves by subject: roads, farms, fairs, navy, etc For a painter of history, the immutable order is: sacred History in the order of the Bible, then life of the saints, the Gospels apocryphal books, then mythology, ancient history, modern history, subjects literary.

Catalogs reasoned

  • Camille Claudel by Queen-Marie Paris.

  • Gustave Courbet by Robert Fernier.
  • Gustave Gilded by Henri Leblanc (1931).
  • Jean Dubuffet Catalog of work of Jean Dubuffet, Booklet I-XXXVIII, Paris 1965-1991 and by Webel, Sophie, the Work engraved and the books illustrated by Jean Dubuffet. Catalog reasoned. Paris 1991.
  • the French sculptor Pierre of Estache by Anne-Dye stick DESMAS, Pierre of Estache (1688 Ca - 1774): a French sculptor in Rome between national institutions and large pontifical building sites .
  • Jacques Villeglé, Catalog reasoned set of themes , Paris, 1989-1991 (5 published vol.)
  • Modigliani by Christian Parisot (2006).
  • Rembrandt by Wilhelm Valentiner (1921) inventory of 711 works. In 1935, Abraham Bredius reduces the number to 630; in 1966 Kurt Bauch still reduces it to 562 works; and in 1968, Horst Gerson counts 420 works of the hand of the Master. During five years, the Rembrandt Research Project publishes three of five projected volumes. Numbers of appraised paintings as authentic decreases by 420 towards 300, although the scientific team accepts the paintings before rejected by Gerson in 1968.
  • Henri of Toulouse-Lautrec published in 1971 enumerates 737 paintings, 275 watercolours, 369 lithographies (including the posters) and approximately 5.000 drawings.

See too

Major French artists on standby of reasoned catalog (May 2007)

Long term job, certain painters of reputation await their reasoned catalog for a long time, the important productivity of some of these artists makes random, because very expensive because of the illustration, the publication of works being cuellement lacking.

Catalogs reasoned to bring up to date

  • Charles Le Brun, the book of Henry Jouin, without any illustration goes back to 1889.
  • Louis-Léopold Boilly, the book of Henry Harrisse goes back to 1898 that of.
  • Joseph Vernet, the book of Florence Ingersoll-Smouse goes back to 1926.
  • Nicolas Lancret, the book of Georges Wildenstein goes back to 1924.
  • Jean-Baptiste Pater, the book of Florence Ingersoll-Smouse goes back to 1928.

Anecdote

The editor Jacque Damase published in 1977 an unreasoned catalog.

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