- Also known as
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Goupil
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primary name: Goupil
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other name: Avril, Léon
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other name: Boussod, Etienne
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other name: Boussod, Jean
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other name: Boussod, Léon
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other name: Boussod, Valadon & Cie
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other name: Boussod, Valadon & Co
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other name: Goupil & Cie
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other name: Goupil & Co
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other name: Goupil & Vibert
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other name: Goupil et Ce
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other name: Goupil et Cie
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other name: Goupil et Vibert
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other name: Goupil, Adolphe
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other name: Goupil, Jean-Michel-Adolphe
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other name: Goupil, Vibert & Cie
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other name: Goupil, Vibert & Comp
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other name: Rittner & Co
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other name: Rittner & Goupil
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other name: Rittner, Henry
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other name: Vibert, Théodore
- Details
- individual; publisher/printer; French; Male
- Other dates
- 1827-1919 (in operation)
- Address
- Paris:
12 Boulevard Montmartre (1831-34)
15 Boulevard Montmartre (1836, 1841-1842, 1844, 1845)
19 Boulevard Montmartre (1849, 1853-54, 1863, 1870, 1872-1873)
7 rue de Lancry (1840s)
10 rue d'Enghien (1840s)
12 rue d'Enghien (1850)
9 rue Chaptal, Paris (main premises in 1860s)
24 Boulevard des Capucines (1893)
New York:
289 Broadway (or Broadway, up Stairs) (1850, 1852)
London:
116-117 New Bond Street (1870s-90s)
25 Bedford Street (before 1882)
23 Bedford Street (1882)
Berlin, London, Paris and The Hague (Boussod, Valadon & Cie)
9 Rue Chaptal, Paris
- Biography
- International print publishing firm which expanded into dealing in and exhibiting contemporary art. Established in France, but soon expanded with branches under various managers in other centres. It traded under a number of different names at different addresses, see below. For prints published by the firm, the name and address that appear on the print are entered in Inscription field of the catalogue entry. Additional biographical database entries are used for the firm at different stages of its history.
1827 founded by Adolphe Goupil (1806-1893), in partnership with John Arrowsmith (q.v.)
1829-December 1840/January 1841: in partnership with Henry Rittner (q.v.)
1841-1850: in partnership with Théodore Vibert (q.v.);
1841 Branch opened in London under Gambart (then under Charles Obach from 1868).
1845 Branch in New York (sold to its manager Michael Knoedler in 1857)
1850-1884: Goupil & Cie; branches in Berlin by 1862, Vienna 1865, Brussels 1866
1861: in partnership with Léon Boussod (1826-1896, associated since 1856), and with Vincent van Gogh (uncle of the painter) in the Hague. Theo van Gogh ran the branch of the firm in Boulevard Montmartre.
1884-1919: Boussod, Valadon & Cie (after Goupil's retirement, although the firm continued to be known familiarly by his name); Boussod's son-in-law René Valadon (1848-1921) had been associated since 1878. Boussod's sons Etienne (1857-1918) and Jean (1860-1907), and another son-in-law, Léon Avril (1856-1942) were also involved in the business, the former running the branch at at the Place de l'Opéra. In 1886, photographic studio and printing press set up by Léon Boussod at Asnières.
1919: The firm closed and its remaining stock was sold at the Galerie Georges Petit on 3 March 1919. See also Manzi-Joyant (q.v.).
- Bibliography
- Grove Dictionary of Art
Lugt 2140 and 1202 (blindstamps for Rittner & Goupil)
Oval blindstamp: 'GOUPIL & CO EDITEURS PARIS'.
Musée Goupil, 20 cours Pasteur, F-33000 Bordeaux (based on the residual stock of the firm) and website http://www.culture.gouv.fr/GOUPIL/FILES/
