Exhibitions
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The ‘Géricault’ horses
An exhibition presented in a museum must be exemplary, and even more so when it shows many works from private collections. A ‘gallery’ is not a ‘private collection’, and while it is perfectly…
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Frans Hals in Amsterdam
Those accustomed to the Dutch museum’s exhibitions will not be disappointed: this is first and foremost the absolute joy of painting, the dazzling freedom of the brushstrokes, the admirable…
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Predictions. Artists face the future
La sibylle de Panzoust dévoilait à ses visiteurs d’abord leur avenir puis son postérieur. Panurge vint la trouver pour s’avoir s’il devait se marier. Après avoir ausculté des feuilles d’arbres «elle se…
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Théodore Rousseau (1812-1867). The voice of the forest
Théodore Rousseau (1812-1867). La voix de la forêt Paris, Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, from 5 March to 7 July 2024. Relegated to the rank of ‘tartouillades’, ‘bastard…
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Great decors restored from Notre-Dame de Paris
The exhibition that the Louvre should have organised is finally being staged by the Mobilier national, and so much the better, as its spaces are perfectly suited to hanging large-format…
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Impossible to escape the Olympic Games
"There may be some who would like to do something else..." suggested Raymond Devos, a French comedian, in a falsely ingenuous tone in a sketch entitled "Faites l’amour, pas la guerre" ("Make love,…
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Claude Lorrain. Drawings and etchings
For specialists, this is no surprise, but for everyone else it’s a real revelation: thanks to the Duc d’Aumale, the Château de Chantilly conserves a collection of graphic works by Claude Lorrain of…
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Noël Coypel, painter to the King
Following on from Versailles, the Noël Coypel retrospective is now on show at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Rennes. But they are not the same exhibition, even though the two share a common catalogue.…
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Jean Mayodon. Precious earth
Only enthusiasts of 20th-century decorative arts are likely to be familiar with the exceptional pieces by Raymond Subes and Jean Mayodon housed in Sens: the two friends, who probably met at the…
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A Chana Orloff exhibition at the Musée Zadkine
She tends towards caricature without ever making fun of her model, for whom she has an obvious tenderness. Chana Orloff sculpts portraits with a benevolent humour, translating the haughty bearing…
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A world of light. Stained glass windows by Francis Chigot and his workshop
She is an ideal ambassador to welcome the many visitors to this fascinating exhibition, which is the result of an intelligent and fruitful collaboration between two regional institutions: the…
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Horace Vernet
At the 1855 Universal Exhibition, which took the place of the Salon and where foreign schools came to confront the French school, the latter put four painters in the limelight, who benefited from…
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Drawings from Bruegel to Rubens in Flemish Collections
The opportunity to admire such a fine collection of Flemish drawings is so rare that we can only regret having missed the opening in autumn 2023 of this exciting Antwerp exhibition, which has…
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Prosper Mérimée
A writer, of course, and one of the best of the French nineteenth century, of which there were many, but also a historian, art critic and many other things besides, Prosper Mérimée is a fascinating…
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The Met exhibits its English drawings
Le Metropolitan Museum, à gauche en haut de son escalier principal, dispose d’un large espace, qui conduit notamment vers la peinture française du XIXe siècle, où il expose des œuvres d’art…
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Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen. The centenary exhibition
There’s still time to go and see the exhibition that the Musée de Montmartre is devoting to Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen to mark the centenary of his death. Born in Lausanne in 1859, the painter…
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Alexandre-Jean Dubois-Drahonet. A rediscovered talent
Alexandre Dubois-Drahonet has already been the subject of several articles in La Tribune de l’Art, notably on the occasion of gallery exhibitions and museum acquisitions. We hoped that one day he…
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Gustave Moreau. The Middle Ages rediscovered
C’est un Moyen Âge syncrétique, souvent fantasmé mais avant tout ornemental que de dévoile la passionnante exposition du Musée Gustave Moreau, qui organise avec une régularité de métronome…
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Forms of ruin
The exhibition at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyon devoted to the theme of ruins goes far beyond the chronological and geographical limits of La Tribune de l’Art, showing many works from Antiquity,…
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Holbein and the Renaissance in the North
He has a receding chin, a trumpet nose and a glassy eye, yet this young man has everything to please because "he does not suffer from want" is what it says on his medallion, and that’s what you…
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Prints from the Petit Palais, from Dürer to Toulouse-Lautrec
Five years after The Art of the Pastel from Degas to Redon, the Petit Palais is unveiling a new section of its exceptional graphic arts collection, with two hundred carefully selected from its…
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Collectors and dealers of Asian art in France (1750-1930)
As its many visitors discovered over the autumn and winter, this exhibition in Dijon is a complete success, hailed as it should be by the public and critics alike, and one that we can only…
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Dieric Bouts, Creator of Images
Transhistorical: this is the only word the organisers of this rich exhibition have on their lips to describe the event, promising a host of radical confrontations designed to "broaden horizons",…
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Van Gogh along the Seine
Who would have thought of travelling to Amsterdam to discover the suburbs of Paris? French and English visitors are in luck, however, since the Van Gogh Museum is within easy reach, unlike the…
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The Regency in Paris (1715-1723). The dawn of the Enlightenment
One Christmas evening at Versailles, the Duc d’Orléans appeared to be absorbed in reading a book that the congregation mistook for a prayer book; the chambermaid of the Duchesse d’Orléans later…
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The new heroes. Paul Richer and the sculpture of work
We reported extensively on our pages that, after years of torpor, the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Chartres narrowly escaped permanent closure in 2017. What would happen next remained unclear. The…
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Journey into crystal
A key material in medieval treasures, rock crystal has its rightful place at the Musée de Cluny, where this rich exhibition is displayed as comfortably as possible under the centuries-old vaults…
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