WPI Oral History: Marie-Caroline Sainsaulieu on Eva Gonzalès

This interview was conducted in French. Visit the Gonzalès Oral History webpage to download a French or English transcript.

Marie-Caroline Sainsaulieu is a French art historian specializing in late 19th-century and early 20th-century French painting. While working on the catalogue raisonné of Henri Manguin, she met Jacques de Mons, with whom she published a catalogue raisonné of Eva Gonzalès’s works in 1990. Sainsaulieu’s interview gives fascinating insight into her personal background with art and architecture that informs her research, as well as detailed historical context for Gonzalès’ life, works, and contemporary significance.

KEYWORDS: Eva Gonzalès, Théodore Géricault, Henri Manguin, Charles Joshua Chaplin, Édouard Manet, Jacques de Mons, Reims Cathedral, Berthe Morisot, French Impressionism, archival research, droit moral, catalogue raisonnés