Jacob Baart de la Faille (1 June 1886,
Leeuwarden
Leeuwarden (; fy, Ljouwert, longname=yes /; Town Frisian: ''Liwwadden''; Leeuwarder dialect: ''Leewarden'') is a city and municipality in Friesland, Netherlands, with a population of 123,107 (2019). It is the provincial capital and seat of the ...
– 7 August 1959,
Heemstede
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History
Heemstede formed around the Castle ''Heemstede'' that was built overlooking the ...
) compiled the first ''
catalogue raisonné
A ''catalogue raisonné'' (or critical catalogue) is a comprehensive, annotated listing of all the known artworks by an artist either in a particular medium or all media. The works are described in such a way that they may be reliably identified ...
'' of the work of
Vincent van Gogh
Vincent Willem van Gogh (; 30 March 185329 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionism, Post-Impressionist painter who posthumously became one of the most famous and influential figures in Western art history. In a decade, he created about 2 ...
, published in 1928. The catalogue was revised and republished by an editorial committee in 1970, and this version is considered to be the definitive catalogue of van Gogh's work.
His catalogue numbers are preceded by an 'F': thus F612 refers to ''
The Starry Night
''The Starry Night'' ( nl, De sterrennacht) is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Dutch Post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh. Painted in June 1889, it depicts the view from the east-facing window of his asylum room at Saint-Rémy-de-Proven ...
''.
Shortly after the publication of the original catalogue, de la Faille became involved in a major fraud affair concerning the Berlin art dealer
Otto Wacker
Otto Wacker (1898–1970) was a German art dealer who became infamous for commissioning and selling forgeries of paintings by Vincent van Gogh. He had gained a good reputation in the 1920s after false starts in various other professions. Since t ...
. De la Faille had certified the
authenticity
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* Authentication, the act of confirming the truth of an attribute
Arts and entertainment
* Authenticity in art, ways in which a work of art or an artistic performance may be considered authentic
Music
* A ...
of 30 paintings which were later determined to be fakes.
Biography
Jacob-Baart de la Faille was born to a Dutch father, Cornelis Baart de la Faille, and a Belgian mother, Henriette Adriana Krayenhoff.
At the University of Utrecht he majored in law, not in art.
[Dr Jacob Baart de la Faille 1886–1959, in: Hammacher, ed., 1970, p. 39]
Writings
* J.-B. de La Faille: ''L'Epoque française de Van Gogh'', MM.
Bernheim-Jeune
Bernheim-Jeune gallery is one of the oldest art galleries in Paris.
Opened on Rue Laffitte in 1863 by Alexandre Bernheim (1839-1915), friend of Delacroix, Corot and Courbet, it changed location a few times before settling on Avenue Matignon. The ...
, éditeurs d'art, Paris ("acheve d'imprimer le 25 aout 1927")
* J.-B. de la Faille: ''L'Œuvre de Vincent van Gogh'', catalogue raisonné, ouvrage accompagné de la reproduction de plus de 1.600 tableaux, dessins, aquarelles et gravures du Maître. 6 vols. Les Éditions G. van Oest, Paris & Bruxelles, 1928
:2nd edition, revising the catalogue of paintings only, Hyperion, Paris 1937 (comprising editions in English, French, and German)
:3rd edition, edited since 1961 by a committee initially including J. G. van Gelder, W. Jos de Gruyter, A. M. Hammacher (chairman),
Jan Hulsker
Jan Hulsker (2 October 1907, The Hague – 9 November 2002, Vancouver) was a Dutch art historian especially noted for his work on Vincent van Gogh. He studied Dutch literature in Leiden and was promoted with a thesis on the author Aart van der Le ...
and H. Gerson, in 1962 joined by Annet Tellegen-Hoogendoorn, later by Martha Op de Coul and, due to time passing, by others
* J.-B. de la Faille: ''Les faux Van Gogh'', avec 176 reproductions. Les Éditions G. van Oest, Paris & Bruxelles, 1930
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1886 births
1959 deaths
20th-century Dutch lawyers
Dutch art critics
Dutch art dealers
Vincent van Gogh scholars
Art forgery
People from Leeuwarden