Rejected attributions

A register of works that have been claimed under Rauscher’s name but that fail every test for inclusion in the catalogue (the four tests are on /methodology). Recording them openly, with the reason and the failing source, is itself a catalogue-raisonné function: it forecloses confusion and documents why a circulating attribution is not accepted. A rejected attribution can move into the catalogue if corroborating evidence appears; report any through /corrections.

At launch the register holds:

• The Haraszthy Hermin portrait. Cenner Mihály’s 1943 Magyar színészportrék katalógusa claimed Rauscher had painted the actress Haraszthy Hermin (1870-1921), citing the 1929 Színházi Élet Christmas issue. No such portrait can be located in the issue Cenner names, and Számadó treats the claim as probably mistaken (/bibliography#szamado-2019, p. 33). It is therefore not catalogued as a Rauscher work.
• Auction-only titles without corroboration. Titles appearing only in saleroom listings, with no period documentation, no securely provenanced signature, and no entry in Számadó 2019, are held here pending corroboration rather than admitted to the catalogue. Each is listed with its source.

This register is deliberately short. The default for a documented-but-untraced work is the /works/not-located register, not this one; rejection is reserved for claims that fail the standard of proof outright.