Goupil Stock Books Online
The Getty Provenance Index® Databases

We are pleased to announce the completion of the "Goupil Database,"
part of the Getty Provenance Index®. The new database provides online
access to all Goupil & Cie / Boussod, Valadon & Cie stock books held at
the Getty Research Institute. The 15 ledgers from the Parisian main
office of Goupil & Cie, and their successors Boussod, Valadon & Cie,
contain such information as the dates of acquisition, dealer's costs,
names of purchasers, dates of sales, and selling prices for about 30,000
works of art bought and sold by the gallery from 1846 to 1919.

Goupil & Cie was a central force on the French art market in the 19th
century. Founded by Henri Rittner in 1827, the Parisian gallery soon
established branches in London, Berlin, Brussels, New York, and The
Hague, which were intended to provide a broad network for the
distribution of reproductive prints. Goupil carried the work of academic
artists, major painters of the Romantic generation, and principal
figures of the Barbizon and The Hague schools. Besides some
Impressionist paintings, the gallery also pursued minor trade in Old
Masters. In 1884 the firm changed its name to "Boussod, Valadon & Cie,
successeur de Goupil & Cie."

The original ledgers are available for consultation in the Getty
Research Institute's Special Collections. They have also been digitized
and are searchable in an online database (43,500 records). Quantitative
analysis of the data should foster new insights into the dynamics of
late-nineteenth century art markets.

Please see:
http://piprod.getty.edu/starweb/goupil/servlet.starweb?path=goupil/goupil.web

Contact:

Christian Huemer
Project for the Study of
Collecting and Provenance
The Getty Research Institute
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, CA 90049-1688

Phone: +310-440 6372
Fax: +310-440 6178
mail: chuemergetty.edu