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|Authors List=Mirka Loiselle,
|Resource=Loiselle (2017)
|Preamble=This reconstruction was proposed by [[Mirka Loiselle]] [[CiteRef::Loiselle (2017)]]. She states that the family Bernheim-Jeune has the distinction of having been one of Renoir’s major art dealers in his lifetime (Bernheim-Jeune, 2017). They therefore have close ties to the Renoir estate as well as substantial records on his paintings. However, in 2015, a team from the BBC show Fake or Fortune attempted to prove the authenticity of a painting purportedly by Renoir, which had been hanging in England’s Picton Castle for several years and was included in the Bernheim-Jeune catalogue. The Wildensteins, however, deemed that the painting was not authentic. As a result, it was turned down by Christie auction house .
It seems likely, then, that both the Wildenstein Institute and Bernheim-Jeune Gallery are considered legitimate authorities in the art world. Importantly, however, they seem to be delegated different degrees of authority: the Bernheim-Jeune catalogue is being consulted only if the Wildensteins have no opinion on the authenticity of a painting. Thus, the relationship between the art market and the two institutions can be interpreted as that of a ''hierarchical authority delegation''.
