Juliet Wilson-Bareau

Juliet Wilson-Bareau (born August 9, 1935 ) is a British art historian .

Life

The Bareau family originally came from Belgium and fled from Antwerp to England during the First World War, where their father Paul Bareau later worked as a banker. Juliet Bareau was born in 1935 as one of four children. She married law professor Geoffrey Philip Wilson in 1958 , from whom she was later divorced. She has been called Juliet Wilson-Bareau since the wedding and also after her divorce.

She studied art history at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. Between 1979 and 1981 she was a drawing curator at the Henry Moore Foundation . She then curated several exhibitions on Édouard Manet and Francisco de Goya and repeatedly published books and essays on these artists. In 1993 she was Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Oxford . She is also a corresponding member of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando and an honorary member of the Hispanic Society of America .

Works (selection)

• The hidden face of Manet , Burlington Magazine, London 1986, ISBN 0-9511350-0-7 .
• Manet by Himself , Macdonald, London 1991, ISBN 0-316-87636-4 .
• Manet: The execution of Maximilian, painting, politics and censorship , National Gallery, London 1992, ISBN 0-691-03209-2 .
• Goya, truth and fantasy , together with Manuela B. Mena Marqués, Yale University Press, New Haven 1994, ISBN 0-300-05863-2 .
• Manet, Monet and the Gare Saint-Lazare , National Gallery of Art, Washington DC 1998, ISBN 0-300-07510-3 .
• Goya, drawings from his private albums , Lund Humphries, London 2001, ISBN 0-85331-804-2 .
• Manet and the sea , together with David C. Degener, Yale University Press, New Haven 2003, ISBN 0-300-10164-3 .
• Manet meets Manet, divided, reunited , together with Malcom Park, Oskar Reinhart Collection “Am Römerholz”, Winterthur 2005, ISBN 3-7965-2202-5 .

Web links

• Biography of juliet Wilson-Bareau on www.amigosmuseoprado.org (spanish)