Publications

The Wildenstein Plattner Institute is pleased to announce its forthcoming publication, Pierre-Auguste Renoir: The Still Lifes, which will serve as the first installment of the WPI’s forthcoming Renoir catalogue raisonné. This major endeavor will feature over 900 works on canvas, many of which have been examined by the Renoir Committee since its founding in 2003.

If you would like to submit works to the Renoir Committee for possible inclusion in this forthcoming publication, please do so via our webportal. 

The Wildenstein Plattner Institute is pleased to announce its forthcoming publication, Claude Monet: The Revised and Updated Catalogue Raisonné; The Pastels. This digital catalogue raisonné, which we anticipate releasing on our website later this year, will include newly-discovered works and critical texts by Dr. Géraldine Lefebvre, as well as updates and amendments to the original catalogue raisonné by Daniel Wildenstein.

The Pastels marks the first installment of the WPI’s project to revise and update the entirety of Wildenstein’s landmark Monet Catalogue raisonné. Since that resource was last published in 1996, new information on Monet’s artworks has come to light that significantly informs the scholarship on the artist.

Accordingly, WPI’s Monet Committee will review the oeuvre, and will update the provenance, exhibition histories, and bibliographic references of those artworks submitted for committee review.

If you would like to submit works to the Monet Committee for possible inclusion in this forthcoming publication, please do so via our webportal. 

WPI is pleased to announce the commencement of the Eva Gonzalès Digital Catalogue Raisonné.

This ambitious undertaking will mark the first digital catalogue raisonné for a woman artist on the Institute’s growing roster.

The artist’s légataire universel has authorized Marie-Caroline Sainsaulieu to lead the project, which will provide academics, provenance researchers, and the general public with an extensive and accessible digital publication that will advance the study of the artist’s oeuvre.

EVA GONZALÈS (1847 – 1883)

Eva Gonzalès was a French painter best known for her portraits and works depicting intimate, daily life. The daughter of a writer and a musician, Gonzalès began drawing and painting at a young age. At around the age of twenty-one, Gonzalès met Édouard Manet, who would eventually serve as her mentor. In 1870, she exhibited her work for the first time at the Paris Salon.

Though she was a contemporary of the Impressionists, she varied from them stylistically, and chose to remain within the academic salon system. Her promising career was interrupted by her death at the age of thirty-six.

Adding artworks previously unpublished in the 1990 catalogue raisonné co-authored by Marie-Caroline Sainsaulieu and Jacques de Mons, and with updates to records on many works, some of which are known exclusively through photographs of exhibition rooms at the Salon de la Vie Moderne (1885), this expanded iteration will be critical to broadening the art historical discourse surrounding the life and work of an important 19th century artist.

“With the Wildenstein Plattner Institute publishing a new digital edition of the catalogue raisonné released in 1990, the renown of Eva Gonzalès thus takes off anew. The artist, whose career was short but dense, joins the pantheon of great painters.” –Marie-Caroline Sainsaulieu 

Published online and accessible free of charge, the project will encompass all of the techniques used by Gonzalès, including oil painting, pastel, watercolor, and charcoal, and cover genres ranging from portraits to landscapes to still lifes.

The WPI will begin to host committees to review works submitted for possible inclusion in the catalogue raisonné in the fall of 2022.

Requests for inclusion can be submitted through the WPI’s webportal.