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Three preemptions from Orléans at the Talabardon & Gautier sale
Of the 14 museum preemptions at the Talabardon & Gautier sales on 21 and 23 March, we have already dealt with six. Thanks to this news item, and to the once again remarkable activity of the…
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Sargent’s painting donated to the Norton Museum
It is difficult to perceive the adventuress behind this vaporous woman who poses in her elegant white dress, pearls around her neck, a large flowered hat at the end of her black-gloved arm, while…
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A new painting by Rémond for Montpellier
The Musée Fabre kept the immense historical landscape from the Salon of 1837 - along with its preparatory sketch acquired in 2016 - as well as a picturesque medium-format Italian landscape, but…
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The Mauritshuis buys a painting by Balthasar van der Ast
In the 1620s and 1630s, a tulip epidemic swept through the northern part of the United Provinces, driving up prices beyond measure and leading to the "tulip crisis" in 1637. Among the most…
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Two new women artists for Washington
Like Luisa Roldán, known as La Roldana, Lavinia Fontana, Gretchen Woodman Rogers and Gesina ter Borch, two new 17th-century Italian painters, Fede Galizia and Caterina Angela Pierozzi, have…
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A 45th painting by Ingres for Montauban
The Talabardon & Gautier sales, so rich in museum acquisitions that we can hardly exhaust the subjects they give us the opportunity to deal with, have also enabled the Musée Ingres in…
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Musée d’Orsay buys a pastel by Devambez
A jack-of-all-trades, both popular and academic, André Devambez has been brought out of oblivion thanks to the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Rennes and the Petit Palais in Paris, which have devoted an…
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Claudius Popelin back at the Musée des Arts décoratifs
Largely unknown nowadays but very famous in his time, Claudius Popelin had all the makings of a Renaissance humanist scholar lost in the 19th century: both a theorist and a practitioner, a…
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Several works by Charles Cottet acquired by Brest
t is the sea that leads, at sunset, this long cortege of black mantises, like a procession of widows, towards the distant bell tower where Low Mass sounds; It is for the sea, no doubt, that all…
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Two paintings by Jules Boilly preempted by Montpellier
They represent the Fountain of the Three Graces on the Place de la Comédie and the Fountain of Cybele on the Place Chabanau in Montpellier, two new paintings by Jules Boilly enter the collections…
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