Full Name: Guiffrey, Jean
Other Names:
- Jean Guiffrey
Gender: male
Date Born: 1870
Date Died: unknown
Home Country/ies: France
Career(s): curators
Overview
Prud’hon scholar and curator Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and later conservator at the Musée du Louvre. In 1924 he authored the catalogue raissone on P. P. Prud’hon. Guiffrey’s two areas of specialty were French primitives and eighteenth-century French painting.
Selected Bibliography
L’oeuvre de P. P. Prud’hon. Paris: A. Colin, 1924.
Sources
“New Curator for Boston, Jean Guiffrey of the Louvre, Paris, Coming to Art Museum.” New York Times April 11, 1911 p. 11.