Alexandre Lafore
Articles
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An exhibition on art nouveau jewelryAs usual, L’École des Arts Joailliers takes a serious approach to a subject that some would quickly find futile, and has wisely entrusted Rossella Froissart - Director of Studies at the École…
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Apollon finally returns to VersaillesIn many respects, some of the jewels in the national collections are like survivors, having outlived both natural disasters and the upheavals of history, not to mention the harmful consequences…
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A painting by Aimée Brune-Pagès for the Musée de PicardieVisitors to the Amiens institution, as well as readers of La Tribune de l’Art, know how proud this museum can be of its dense 19th-century collections, where the greatest names cohabit…
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A 17th-century chess set donated to the Grünes GewölbeSome birthday presents are more amusing than others: all visitors to the 2022 edition of Tefaf Maastricht (see article) will remember this marvellous ebony and ivory chessboard that seemed to…
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A drawing by Jacob de Wit for ClevelandAlways well present in the aisles of the Salon du Dessin, North American museums rarely miss an opportunity to enrich their collections: quickly reserved on the beautiful stand of the Dutch…
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A witness to Marie-Antoinette’s taste enters the LouvreThe highly mechanical precision of certain revolutionary inventories sometimes leaves considerable room for the imagination, and thus - until recently - we had to be content with dreaming when…
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A terracotta by Vinache donated to the National Gallery of Art in WashingtonLargely forgotten nowadays, Jean Joseph Vinache was nevertheless one of the fine sculptors of eighteenth-century France, even though he first made his career in Saxony, where his most famous work…
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Two George Minne for ChicagoIt was undoubtedly one of the most striking sheets on offer at the last Salon du Dessin: on the stand of the young gallery owner Ambroise Duchemin sat a large drawing by George Minne, which was…
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Promenades on paperThere’s nothing like a summer on the banks of the Loire to restore your strength after a harsh American winter, even if you might prefer "Promenades on Paper" to "Promenades de papier", especially…
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Two panels by Adriaen Brouwer reunited at the MauritshuisAdriaen Brouwer remains one of the most colourful figures of 17th-century Flemish painting, famous for the debauchery that led to his premature death: it is probably no coincidence that a range…
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