Bénédicte Bonnet Saint-Georges
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Vaux-le-Vicomte launches a subscription to buy a tapestry
How to retain Spring? The Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte is launching a crowfunding, in collaboration with the Sauvegarde de l’art français, to purchase a tapestry from the Gardener Children hanging.…
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16th-century Italian sculpture acquired by the Prado
A marble by Giovanni Bandini has finally been purchased by the Prado Museum, having been declared a "property of cultural interest" last April by the Comunidad de Madrid. This Venus accompanied…
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Clouets for the Louvre and Chantilly
The portraits of two brothers by François Clouet recently joined the public collections, acquired by the Musée du Louvre and the Musée Condé in Chantilly on the same day in June: one represents the…
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An exhibition of wallpapers at the Galerie Léage
Wallpaper (in French "papier peint") is not painted. Of course, it was in its early days, when it was created by the Chinese and adorned the walls of the sumptuous interiors described by Marco…
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Enamels from the Middle Ages at the Brimo de Laroussilhe gallery
Pyxides, boxes containing Oil of Saints, reliquary shrines, bookbinding plaques and candlesticks - the Parisian gallery Brimo de Laroussilhe is bringing together an anthology of enamels from the…
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Galerie Chevalier puts antique tapestries on sale
To obtain the keys to paradise, do we have to give up the laurels of glory? Not necessarily. Salvation and fame are both available at the Galerie Chevalier. Among the sumptuous tapestries on the…
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A Manet and a Cassatt for Atlanta
She appears in several works by Édouard Manet: Madame Jules Guillemet, born Jeanne Julie Charlotte Besnier de la Pontonnerie, epitomised the Parisian woman of the Belle Epoque. She and her husband…
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A Manfredi for the Met
A single solemnity for two saints: Peter and Paul are celebrated on the same day, considered to be the two pillars of the Church, one the stone on which it is built, the other the apostle to the…
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Interview with Mathilde Augé, Executive Director of WMF France
The World Monument Fund is an international organisation dedicated to safeguarding architecture and heritage. It had an affiliate office in France that took part in numerous restoration projects…
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A relief by François Du Quesnoy for Boston
François Du Quesnoy’s plump, chubby putti made his reputation, sometimes to the point of overshadowing the rest of his work, or tarnishing it with numerous replicas and copies that were widely…
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