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The Discoveries section provides insights into the WPI researchers’ short and long-term research projects. Our blog posts make the most of the WPI Archive, presenting forgotten details and lesser-known aspects of the works and legacies of the artists studied by the WPI.

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First Glimpse Into a Historic Photo Archive

Posted on August 04, 2020
The WPI’s Photothèque Archives is a remarkable collection of over 25,000 black and white photographs originally assembled by the Wildenstein Institute throughout the 20th century. These photographs were intended to facilitate staff research on a variety of art historical subjects, ranging from 13th c. religious relief sculptures to 20th c. artists such as Mikhail Larionov. The WPI is currently processing this sizable collection for public use, and will release  three […]

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WPI Oral Histories

Posted on December 14, 2020
The WPI Oral Histories provide unprecedented firsthand accounts from art historians, archivists, gallerists, and others with close connections to WPI’s research projects. Issued in installments throughout 2021, each oral history will complement the […]

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The Things of Friendship

Posted on September 20, 2019
Still lifes are often considered a minor genre or a plain subject of study; in fact, the genre is not as static and silent as we think. In the nineteenth […]

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Théodore Duret in Japan

Posted on July 24, 2019
Almost 150 years ago, Théodore Duret (1838-1927), a defender of the Impressionists, went on a world tour with Henry Cernuschi.1 It was on this fateful tour, from 1871 to 1872, […]

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Claude Monet: The Water Lily Pond

Posted on May 28, 2019
In Giverny, a small village located about 75km west of Paris, Claude Monet owned the “Pressoir” house as well as the gardens that surrounded it. He also rented a piece […]

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A Peculiar Still-Life

Posted on April 24, 2019
It is unlikely to find in Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s oeuvre a work that resembles this still-life and it is almost impossible to determine its subject: is it a vase? A lamp? […]

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Who is this woman?

Posted on January 15, 2019
In 1899, while examining Edouard Manet’s Jeune femme voilée at the home of the collector Charles Deudon (1832–1914), Pierre-Auguste Renoir alluded to an “ugly veiled woman” without identifying her (letter […]
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