This study of the Spanish painter Francisco de Zurbarán (1598–1664) includes recently uncovered archival documents, which allowed the author María Luisa Caturla to examine new aspects of Zurbarán’s life and of the evolution of his work.
Translation and critical interpretation: Odile Delenda
1994
Wildenstein Institute and La Bibliothèque des Arts
369 pages, 28 x 33.5 cm
80 color plates, 400 black & white illustrations
ISBN-13: 978-2850472480
The first of the four volumes in the revised edition of the catalogue raisonné is a biography of Claude Monet (1840–1926), later published as a stand-alone study of the artist’s work. The following three volumes document some of the 2,050 pictures Monet made over the course of his long and fruitful career. Monet’s catalogue raisonné was the first installment in the Wildenstein Institute/Benedikt Taschen’s editorial partnership, which aimed to increase the international circulation of the Institute’s catalogue raisonnés and broaden their audience.
Daniel Wildenstein
Translation: Chris Miller and Peter Snowdon (Volume 1),
Josephine Bacon (Volume 2)
1996
Wildenstein Institute and Taschen
1,580 pages, 24 x 32 each
2,850 color and black & white illustrations
ISBN 3-8228-8759-5
Out of print
This catalogue presents 260 works of the Parisian painter and engraver Louis-Gabriel Moreau, or Moreau l’Aîné (1740–1806). The artist, who specialized in landscapes and views of the surroundings of Paris, including Neuilly, Saint-Cloud, and Vincennes, was very much sought-after by 18th-century amateurs.
Georges Wildenstein
1923
Les Beaux-Arts, Édition d’études et de documents
80 pages, 25 x 32.5 cm
100 black & white illustrations
Out of print
Velázquez: The Artist as Maker elucidates the Spanish painter’s creative and historical legacies, and present an inventory of his painted œuvre. José López-Rey wrote a substantial account of Velásquez’s life (1599–1660), but also catalogued 129 of his paintings, all reproduced and analyzed. This volume was translated into three languages and published by Taschen in 1996.
José López-Rey
1979
La Bibliothèque des Arts
541 pages, 21.5 x 28 cm
37 color and 129 black & white plates, 53 black & white figures
This small publication focuses on a portrait of Gabriel de Rieux, President of the Seconde Chambre des Enquêtes of the Parlement de Paris, an important painting by Maurice Quentin de La Tour (1704–1788), which had rarely been studied.
Georges Wildenstein
1919
Les Beaux-Arts, Édition d’études et de documents
collection “L’Art français”
21 pages
The catalog emphasizes the skill and observational gifts of Maurice Quentin de La Tour (1704–1788), who renewed the art of portrait painting and the technique of pastel to offer an original panorama of the cosmopolitan society of the eighteenth century.
Albert Besnard and Georges Wildenstein
1928
Paris, Les Beaux-Arts, Édition d’études et de documents
collection “L’Art français”
333 pages, 25 x 32.5 cm
268 black & white figures and 120 black & white plates
Out of print
