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A presumed portrait of Gustave Flaubert for the Musée de la Vie romantique
Thanks to a donation, a presumed portrait of Gustave Flaubert has joined the Musée de la Vie romantique. An emblematic figure of realism, Flaubert also maintained close links with the Romantic…
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A Giaquinto for Spain’s National Heritage
In 2023, through Christie’s Iberica, Spain’s National Heritage acquired a painting by Corrado Giaquinto, which is now in the Royal Collections. It is probably a sketch for the ceiling or vault of a…
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An early Goya for the Museo del Romanticismo
The work has not been allowed to leave Spanish territory since 2014, having been declared an Work of Cultural Interest (BIC). Originally attributed to Francisco Bayeu, this Pietà was attributed…
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Two paintings by Lurçat acquired by Quimper
In addition to the mask by René Iché and the gouache by Max Jacob, two paintings by Jean Lurçat have recently been added to the 20th-century collection of the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Quimper.…
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A Soldani Benzi masterpiece for Detroit
It was one of the most talked-about works at last year’s TEFAF in Maastricht, where this magnificent raw earth modello by the great Florentine sculptor Massimiliano Soldani Benzi took pride of…
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Fontainebleau gets an Isabey drawing
C’est à la fois un très beau dessin et un formidable document historique ainsi qu’une aquarelle célèbre chez les amateurs d’arts décoratifs puisqu’elle témoigne d’un ameublement perdu : les équipes…
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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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A painting by Charles Valfort acquired by the Musée de la Vie romantique
Une fascinante représentation d’atelier d’artiste rejoint les collections du Musée de la Vie romantique. Acquise auprès de la galerie Michel Descours à Paris, elle est due à Charles Valfort, peintre et…
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An unpublished sanguine by Bandinelli acquired by the Getty
It was one of the most important sheets on offer at last year’s Salon du Dessin (see article), where it took pride of place on the stand of Jean-Luc Baroni & Marty de Cambiaire, who will…
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A Zoffany for England
L’acteur Robert Baddeley incarna le rôle stéréotypé du Juif usurier dans la pièce de Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal ou L’Ecole de la médisance. Présentée en 1777 au théâtre royal de…
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