Jeannine Baticle (1920 – 24 December 2014) was a French art historian, and curator, She was the Honorary Deputy Director and Chief Curator of the Department of Paintings of the

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Museum, and a specialist in Spanish painting.

Career

Baticle has devoted her entire career to the Louvre Museum and Spanish art. After completing the courses at

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, she started to work for the Painting Department of Louvre Museum as an assistant in 1945. She defended her thesis in 1947. She was appointed titular assistant in 1952 and conservator in 1962. She was also the director of the

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between 1980 and 1986. She co-authored with Paul Guinard in 1950, then she organized several exhibitions both in France and abroad. In 1963, she collaborated with

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and Robert Mesuret to present the at Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris. In 1970, she curated the exhibition ''Goya'' at the art museum

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, and then at

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in Paris. The following year, she organised at Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille and Goya Museum. She also curated in 1987 and in January 1988, the important retrospective exhibitions of ''Zurbarán'' at the

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in New York and

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in Paris, respectively. Over the years Baticle has acquired a deep knowledge of Spain, about its history and customs, which allowed her to situate the works of painters in their social and political context.

Selected publications

* ''Goya, d'or et de sang'', collection «

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» (nº 7), série Arts. Éditions Gallimard, 1986 ** UK edition – ''Goya: Painter of Terror and Splendour'', '

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' series. Thames & Hudson, 1994 ** US edition – ''Goya: Painter of Terrible Splendor'', "

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" series. Harry N. Abrams, 1994 * ''Zurbarán'', Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1987, 2013 * ''Velázquez : Peintre hidalgo'', collection « Découvertes Gallimard » (nº 73), série Arts. Éditions Gallimard, 1989 (new edition in 2015) * ''Goya'', collection « Sciences humaines », Librairie Arthème Fayard, 1992

References

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