Jean Béraud (1849–1935) was an attentive observer of Parisian life and a chronicler of the Belle Époque. Béraud’s paintings portrayed the modern, urban features of Paris. In his views of the city’s boulevards, of its famous and picturesques districts, from the Champs-Élysées to Montmartre, Béraud captured Paris in all of its diversity. He painted “élégantes,” wanderers, absinthe drinkers, pool players, opera dancers, modists or ice-skaters. Jean Béraud, La Belle Époque, the first catalogue dedicated to this overlooked artist, gathers 478 paintings representing a world gone by. 

Published under the auspices of the Wildenstein Institute, with French and English texts facing. A catalogue raisonné of 478 paintings, watercolors and pastels, each individually illustrated. Includes transcriptions of Béraud's letters, analysis of the artist's handwriting, and residential addresses. Indexes his collectors, galleries and museums, and persons and places. A supplement is in preparation, see entry in this database.