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04/30/2012

Welcome to the Poussin Connoisseurship Project.

RATIONALE.

Why do this? Well, the internet revolution is making visual art available to the public in an unprecedented way, and scholars like me are excited by the opportunities this holds for the promotion of our subject. Not only that, but the web is starting to affect the way connoisseurship is practiced. The Poussin Connoisseurship Project positions itself within that new paradigm of digital connoisseurship; it aims to bring the traditional catalogue raisonné into the realms of hyperlinks, digital databases and the expanding universe of art history on the web. We’ll start modestly at first- but who knows? This has the potential to be something bigger.

AIMS

To list the paintings on the Public Catalogue Foundation: BBC Your Paintings website (and others) that are not by Poussin’s hand, though linked with him by the curators of these resources. This includes paintings designated as “After”, “Style of”, “School” etc.
To use my own expertise and experience as a Poussin scholar to add to the knowledge data base of the PCF, as well as offer an independent resource for anybody interested in the subject.
To raise awareness about scholarly issues in Poussin connoisseurship for the general public.
To use this resource as a foundation for larger, more ambitious projects, like cataloguing the paintings on the PCF by Poussin's followers; or even working through Poussin’s oeuvre in a web format.

FORMAT

The chosen format is derived from a number of conventions and traditions in cataloguing; this may change depending on what works best over time.

TITLE

LOCATION

MEDIUM AND SUPPORT (nearly always oil on canvas in Poussin’s case).

PROVENANCE (History of Ownership).

RELATED WORKS (originals, autograph works, drawings and engravings).

TECHNICAL NOTES (conservation,restoration, condition etc).

THEME.(Mythology, Biblical, whatever).

ADDITIONAL REMARKS

RELEVANT LITERATURE (subdivided into catalogues and other literature).

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Kudos for the initiative David. If I may ask a question - why limit it to the PCF - which only lists works in the UK and has limited editing scope?

If I could suggest an alternative, or even just float it as FYI - wikipaintings is a wonderful tool for just what you are proposing, but not limited to UK works and with editing capacity to add short text/refs etc.

Here's Poussin's entry there:

http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/nicolas-poussin

I also very much like your headings. They are the guts of describing a work - though I would perhaps recommend making a separate heading for "attribution history" which would of course arise from relevant literature.

Just as you describe the ownership history, describing the attribution/critical history allows us to get an idea of the credibility of an attribution. Was it based on the result of a cleaning, new documentary evidence, or an imaginative 19C dealer who dreamed up the attribution to sell it to an unsuspecting buyer! I can list examples of each variation for Raphael and wonder if similar things exist for Poussin too.

Good Luck!

Posted by: H Niyazi | 05/02/2012 at 05:43 PM

This is very exciting, David! And many thanks to you for stepping up to face this important challenge. Two or three years from now, I wonder what will come to mind when we hear the venerable word "connoisseurship"?

Posted by: Edward Goldberg | 05/02/2012 at 07:49 PM

Thanks Edward.

H, I will look at paintings on the continent later, after I've looked the derivative work and copies on the PCF. I'll probably look at paintings on NICE (nat Inv of Cont European Paintings) but give me a chance!

Thanks for all the other suggestions. I'm not sure that a "attribution history" is required for the first phase because 9 times out of 10 I won't know who the copyist is. I'll probably be tweaking the format though as I move along.

Best- David

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