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----------------------------Original message---------------------------- ------------------ Getty Provenance Index Public Web Site Established 1/7/99 The Getty Provenance Index, directed by Burton Fredericksen and operating = under the Getty Reseach Institute, collects and disseminates information related = to the history of collecting and the provenance of individual works of art, primarily Western European paintings, providing scholars and museum curators with important information about the history of taste and collecting. Six online searchable databases totalling over 600,000 records have recently = been made available to the public via the Internet, facilitating access to over = 9,000 seventeenth- and eighteenth-century European family inventories, 5,000 eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European auction catalogues, and basic cataloguing information on more than 32,000 paintings from various American = and British public collections. Provenance information has been documented for = over 12,000 paintings in public collections. The Provenance Index Online = Databases, as well as information about the Provenance Index projects and Documentation Collaborative can be found on the Provenance Index web site at: http://piedi.getty.edu