Exhibitions
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Predictions. Artists face the futureLa 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 forestThéodore 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 ParisThe 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 etchingsFor 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 KingFollowing 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 earthOnly 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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The Treasury of Notre-Dame cathedralContrary to what you might read here or there (and even in some of the texts of the remarkable catalogue accompanying the Louvre exhibition), the treasury of Notre-Dame cathedral was not saved…
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Musée du Verre de Conches, reopening and exhibition of a donationAfter three years of renovation work, the Musée du Verre in Conches-en-Ouche reopened its doors at the end of June 2022. Too cramped for space in the premises it had occupied since its creation in…
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A ter Brugghen exhibition in ModenaTer Brugghen à la Galleria Estense, en Émilie, non loin de Bologne, soit sur les terres des Carracci et de leurs élèves plutôt que sur celles des Caravagesques : une telle exposition peut surprendre…
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A little-known heritage. Paintings from the diocese of Paris from the 15th to the 20th centuriesAll the works of art recorded in Paris churches before 1905 and the law separating Church and State belonged to the City of Paris, and all those in Notre-Dame belonged to the State. Since then,…
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Fantastic animalsCould we have been lied to? The mummified dragon’s head on display in a curiosity cabinet looks an awful lot like a crocodile’s (ill. 1). It may come from the Musée du Doudou, but it’s sure to fool…
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Amedeo Modigliani. A painter and his dealerThere’s nothing like a famous name to get the season off to a flying start: following on from a fine display presented last year, the exhibition has everything it takes to seduce visitors, despite…
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Louis Janmot. The Poem of the SoulLouis Janmot was born on 21 May 1814. According to the rules laid down by the Ministry of Culture, he therefore belongs to the Musée du Louvre. Fortunately, the Musée d’Orsay, to which all artists…
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Treasures of the Kingdom of Lotharingia, Charlemagne’s legacyInaugurated in summer 2021 with the hero Ulysses, the Hôtel Départemental des Expositions (HDE Var) in Draguignan in the Var département, in the south of France, has quickly established itself as a…
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In the studio of the Lemoine & Chaudet sisters« Je déclare vivre de mon art » Dans l’atelier des sœurs Lemoine & Chaudet Grasse, Musée Jean-Honoré Fragonard, from 10 June to 8 October 2023 Lovers of early painting will certainly remember…
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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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Back to L’Aquila (4). An exhibition about the Maestro di Campo di GioveAs part of the tour of the Museo Nationale d’Abruzzo, from 26 May until 3 September there is a very interesting focused exhibition accompanying the recent acquisition of four panels depicting…
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Marquet in NormandyIl y avait eu cette dernière décennie Pissarro, Boudin puis Dufy, le Musée André Malraux poursuit avec Marquet son cycle d’expositions consacrées aux peintres qui ont entretenu un lien particulier avec…
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Cross in the light of the Var, "the most beautiful country in the world"His name is a sparkling invitation, and yet the beach at Baigne-cul remains deserted, barely animated by three boys, or rather by a single one, depicted three times under a blazing sun. The…
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Hubert-Sauzeau, an exhibition in Niort, Deux-Sèvres departmentHe had benefited in 2017 and again in 2019 from two discreet focused exhibitions organised by the Musée Bernard d’Agesci in Niort at the initiative of its director, Laurence Lamy, who had been…
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Ingres. The artist and his princesWe were thrilled with the visit. Reading the remarkable catalogue completes our conviction: this Ingres exhibition at the Château de Chantilly is a great success. It presents the five paintings…
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Pierre Alexandre Morlon, art in the service of the RepublicTaking an interest in artists of local origin is one of the missions of French provincial museums, and we can only congratulate those who do so. Those born in Paris are often much less fortunate…
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Jacobus Vrel. Forerunner of VermeerThe biography of Jacobus Vrel, to whom the Fondation Custodia is devoting a remarkable retrospective, is a quick one to write: we know almost nothing about the artist, apart from his works (only…
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Sarah Bernhardt. And the woman created the star"I’m not sure that Madame Sarah Bernhardt, at the point she’s at, is still able to find the right intonation to say "Good morning Sir, how are you?" She needs the extraordinary to be herself" The…
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An exhibition on the Alps as a frontierIt was 2012: the plans-reliefs were the subject of a high-profile and very expensive exhibition at the Grand Palais. At the time we wrote an article: "Musée des Plans-Reliefs: an exhibition. After…
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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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