National and local press coverage of the Flight into Egypt in both general and specialized publications between September 1995 and March 2008.
By Bernard Lahire
Interview with Sylvie Ramond, Director of the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, 11 July 2008.
Interview with Sylvie Ramond, Director of the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Agnès Cipriani, Head of Development at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyons, and Isabelle Dubois-Brinkmann, Curator at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, 1 October 2008.
By Bernard Lahire and Géraldine Bois
Interview with Agnès Cipriani, Head of Development at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, 6 October 2010.
By Adélaïde Ploux-Chilles and Mathilde Provensal
Interview with Agnès Cipriani, Head of Development at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, 27 February 2009.
By Mathilde Provensal
Interview with Vincent Pomarède, Director of the Department of Paintings at the Louvre, 7 June 2010.
By Johan Hernandez
Interview with Henri Zerner, Professor of History of Art at Harvard, March 2011.
By Géraldine Bois
Interview with Isabelle Dubois-Brinkmann, Curator at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, organizer of the 2008 exhibition, 21 October 2010.
Interview with Pierre Rosenberg, art historian, member of the Académie Française, former Director of the Louvre (1994–2001), 21 October 2010.
Interview with William Bourdon, lawyer for the family who previously owned the painting sold in 1986 in Versailles, 1 February 2011.
Interview with Hubert Duchemin, collector, 10 February 2011.
Interview with Richard Pardo, gallery owner, 10 February 2011.
Interview with the son of the owner of the painting sold in 1986, 16 March 2011.
Interview with François Duret-Robert, legal expert, journalist with Connaissance des arts, lecturer in law at the École du Louvre, Lyon 3, Paris 1 and Paris Dauphine, 12 March 2012.
Interview with Yves Di Domenico, assistant to Sylvain Laveissière, Head Curator at the Louvre between 2006 and 2008, 7 June 2012.
Interview with Michel Colonna Ceccaldi, President of the Society of Friends of the Museum of Verrières-le-Buisson, 21 June 2012.
Interview with Jean-Pierre Cuzin, former Head Curator at the Louvre, 21 June 2012.
Finally, the following were also consulted: letters (16) and analysis reports (3) relating to the ‘Piasecka-Johnson’ version; letters or emails (25) and documents (1) relating to the comparison between the various versions of the painting; letters or emails (6) and documents (1) relating to the ‘Wolf’ version; expert reports and analysis reports (4) on the ‘Pardo’ version; letters or emails (8) and documents (10) relating to the project to acquire the painting; letters (6) and documents (12) relating to the court case; letters (12) and documents (2) relating to the Pardo brothers; documents concerning the requests for export certificates (10); documents about the 2008 exhibition and symposium (5).