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A painting from Rembrandt’s entourage for the Nationalmuseum in StockholmCarel Fabritius ? Willem Drost ? Neither of these two painters, to whom it was successively attributed, is probably the author of this fascinating painting. It was therefore offered for sale in…
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The second edition of Paris Print FairWhile the Salon du Dessin, a flagship event for the art market at the end of March, is in full swing in Paris with a great success and an attendance (especially museums) the likes of which have…
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A drawing attributed to Robert Lefèvre acquired by the GettyWe admired it last spring in the abundance of exhibitions in Parisian galleries, the large portrait attributed to Robert Lefèvre presented by Alexis Bordes has joined the Getty Museum. A fine…
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A painting by Gretchen Woodman Rogers for WashingtonWe underlined it again last autumn, the entry of works by women artists in its collections has been a priority axis of the acquisition policy of the National Gallery of Art in Washington in…
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Upcoming Sotheby’s sales in ParisSotheby’s is offering an exceptional set of six works by Théodore Géricault for sale on 23 March. They have remained in the same family to this day, held by the descendants of Adam Elmore, who…
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A bust of Dumas by Fauginet offered by the Friends of the LouvreThe first Talabardon & Gautier sale, at Ader, Hôtel Drouot, went well this afternoon, with very few unsold items and many museum preemptions. We will be talking about this in the next few…
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Drawings for sale at Christie’s Paris"There was a rich man whose manager was accused of wasting his possessions." Three other preparatory drawings for The Raven are known, one in the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in…
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An auction by Artcurial in ParisSeveral still lifes, of different origins but forming a coherent whole. This is what strikes you first in the sale of old paintings, drawings and sculptures at Artcurial which will take place…
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Giovanni Bellini. Cross-influencesHow can you recognise the genius of a painter without seeing the diversity of his work? It is true that the Madonnas and the Child were Bellini’s stock in trade, and he not only multiplied his…
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Talabardon & Gautier sales at AderIn a first article, we announced that we would review the Talabardon & Gautier sale organised by SVV Ader. The sale will finally take place in two sessions on Tuesday 21 and Thursday 23…
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The Evangeliary of Saint-Mihiel: a new defeat for French heritageIt is one of the most important medieval manuscripts in the world. The Evangeliary of Saint-Mihiel was classified as a national treasure on 1 March 2020. According to the opinion of the…
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A pair of paintings from Joseph Vernet’s studio acquired by LangresAs it prepares to celebrate its tenth anniversary on 1 April, the Maison des Lumières Denis Diderot in Langres is adding several new works to its collections. We will come back to each of them,…
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Database and restorations: news from the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes (1)The Brittany museum is often in the news, and we will soon come back to some recent additions (long-term loans and acquisitions) and to a major restoration campaign it is conducting on large…
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Summary of Péristyles-Cahier des Amis du Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nancy, n° 60, December 2022Éditorial - Paul Vert, S’évader au grand jour Sophie Laroche, Autour de l’exposition sur les « Architectures impossibles » Claire Stoullig, L’art cruel Quentin Coquillat, L’Antiquité rêvée dans…
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Summary of Print Quarterly Volume XL - n° 1 - March 2023Contents Susanne Meurer, Johann Neudörffer the Elder and the Earliest German Recipe for Copper Etching Eckhard Leuschner, Luca Ciamberlano’s Vision of St Teresa of Ávila and its Reflections in…
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Swedish EcstasyFive years ago, we discovered the art of Hilma af Klint, a Swedish painter from the end of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century, whose works were linked to spiritualism. This…
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A masterpiece by Evaristo Baschenis joins the Accademia CarraraIt is an unforgettable painting that has finally reached the Bergamo collections, while its author was triumphing in Paris, where the Canesso Gallery dedicated a wonderful retrospective to him:…
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Fontainebleau restores the cartoons of Oudry’s Royal Hunts"You will never be anything but a painter of dogs", Nicolas de Largillière is said to have laughingly predicted to Jean-Baptiste Oudry, admiring his pupil’s gift for rendering the animal "with such…
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A (final?) opportunity to save the decor of the Roman BarIn 2011, we published a news item to express our indignation at the sale of a set of thirteen paintings by Gustave Surand, which formed the décor of the Bar Romain, next to L’Olympia, after these…
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A new drawing by Victor Prouvé for Issy-les-Moulineauxn the wake of the exhibition devoted to Victor Prouvé a few months ago (see article), the Musée français de la carte à jouer is adding a new sheet to its collection of works by the artist. Acquired…
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A post-Palissean cot for the Louvre MuseumThe sale organized by Coutau-Bégarie & Associés at the Hôtel Drouot on February 23 was not only scrutinized by the Crozatier Museum, which took away an important Auvergne Mirgin and Child: a few…
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Houston buys a painting by Marguerite Gérard and FragonardThe story of this painting, acquired by The Museum of Fine Arts from the galerie Éric Coatalem, is surprising and fascinating. We can summarise it here from the note written by Carole Blumenfeld,…
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From Pisano to Rembrandt...It is sometimes difficult to write an article about the entry into the collections of a work that we have already spoken about extensively here and that is finally acquired through a fundraising.…
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Tefaf 2023, a great vintageIn 2020, the fair was shortened due to the pandemic. In 2021, it was cancelled for the same reason. In 2022, it was held in June in a slightly reduced form. In 2023, Tefaf returned to its…
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A neo-Gothic prie-Dieu acquired by OrsayWhile the Musée d’Orsay’s decorative arts collections from the 1848-1889 period should soon - in 2024 most likely - benefit from new rooms, located opposite the Salle des Fêtes, they have been…
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A new Thomas Couture for Senlis"If you take models, [...] surprise them; let them not know that you are looking at them. A few quickly drawn lines, your observations and a few notes taken on the fire of your impressions will…
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A miniature by Jean Cotelle for the Musée du Grand SiècleIt had been the subject of a research announcement by the Château de Versailles on La Tribune de l’Art in 2017 ahead of the exhibition "Jean Cotelle (1646-1708), gardens and gods" then in…
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VermeerHurry to the website of the Rijksmuseum, click frantically to obtain the famous sesame. New visiting slots are offered: it is still possible to see Vermeer on certain evenings at 9:30 pm. By the…
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A Roman terracotta for the Getty MuseumIt was one of the most seductive sculptures presented in June at the last edition of the Maastricht Fair (see article): the superb terracotta Saint Jerome proposed on the stand of the Lullo…
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Two Ary Scheffer for the Musée de la Vie romantiqueHoused in the former home of the painter Ary Scheffer, the Musée de la Vie romantique has a remarkable collection of the artist’s works, which has recently been enriched by a new painting and a new…
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Theodoor Rombouts, Virtuoso of Flemish CaravaggismWhen one thinks of Caravagesques, Italian, Spanish, French or Dutch painters come to mind. Flemish painters are often overlooked, sometimes forgotten. This is probably a consequence of the…
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The Dallas Museum of Art buys a Luca GiordanoSitting in the center of Galerie Colnaghi’s beautiful stand at the last edition of the Maastricht fair, this grandiose Triumph of Galatea by Luca Giordano already seemed destined to be snapped up…
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Bordeaux buys a painting by GervexHenri Gervex’s most famous painting entitled Rolla caused such a scandal at the 1873 Salon that it was excluded. It was included in the somewhat too light exhibition that Orsay devoted to…
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A Virgin and Child for the Crozatier MuseumStrategically located in the heart of the Auvergne, the Crozatier Museum in Le Puy-en-Velay, however, remains poor in medieval sculpture, despite the region’s wealth in this area. As Marie-Blanche…
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Grand séminaire of Besançon: call for fundraising and voteA major restoration is always a failure. It means that the monument has not been maintained when it should have been, that is to say regularly. And when you see the state of the "pavillon de…
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Import VAT: another solution is possibleThe French Ministry of Finance and the French Ministry of Culture held a press briefing today on the issue of VAT on works of art which, for some days now, following the article published by Les…
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Interview with Patrice Benadon, collectorYou did not grow up in an artistic environment and practiced dentistry. How did you develop this passion for art that has led you to build a collection that is both rich and varied, in which 15th…
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Restoration of the chapels of Saint-Joseph of Saint-Sulpice and Saint-EustacheLa restauration des églises parisiennes se poursuit, menée par la Conservation des œuvres d’art religieuses et civiles (COARC) et par la Direction des affaires culturelles de la Ville de Paris (DAC).…
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A drawing by Gibelin preempted by the Musée des Arts décoratifsAs we mentioned in the preamble to the series of news items we devoted to recent acquisitions by the Musée des Arts décoratifs de Paris, the latter preempted on November 24 at Millon a rare drawing…
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The National Gallery of London buys its first PechsteinWhen a major museum buys a first painting by a great artist that has been missing from its collections until now, it can’t go wrong: the National Gallery has thus set its sights on the beautiful…
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Renovation of the Musée Lambinet in VersaillesCrushed by the château, which attracts the vast majority of tourists visiting Versailles, the Musée Lambinet, a municipal museum, is having trouble making itself known, and that is a great pity,…
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L’invité de La Tribune de l’Art n° 8 - 28/2/23 : Pierre OuzouliasFor the first time, in our program "L’invité de La Tribune de l’Art" we receive a politician, Pierre Ouzoulias, communist senator of the Hauts-de-Seine, vice-president of the Commission of culture,…
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A painting by Édouard Odier offered to the Musée de la Vie romantiqueAfter the numerous recent donations to the Musée d’Orsay, Élisabeth and Jacques Foucart have once again shown their generosity, this time to the Musée de la Vie romantique, by offering it - still in…
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The Cour des Comptes investigates the sale of the Grignon furnitureIn France, an ordinance relating to the financial responsibility regime of public managers has recently modified the conditions under which public managers can be sanctioned for their actions.…
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The Musée de la Vie romantique buys a bronze by Mélingue"Camped and draped as he was, he seemed modeled on a statue" Thus Dumas père described the actor Étienne Mélingue, whose youth before success he recounted in a story entitled Une vie d’artiste,…
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VAT on imported works of art: French suicideThe import tax can be understood as soon as it regulates the imports of goods that a country (or a set of countries governed by a common market) uses, from other countries, and that weigh on its…
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The National Gallery of Washington buys a nautilusExplorers and merchants brought back exotic objects from their travels to grace the cabinets of curiosities in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; the nautilus shell, in particular, was…
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Cluny buys the Christ by Giovanni PisanoThe dismaying exhibition of Dresden masterpieces at the Palais du Luxembourg called into question the very mission of museums by suggesting that they should sort out the art objects: "Can we…
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Death of François BergotWriting an obituary is a delicate exercise, and even more so when one did not know the person in question. Nevertheless, we feel it is necessary to pay tribute to great curators. We have received…
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Le Beau SiècleIt is with a cannon shot that this fascinating exhibition begins, undoubtedly the richest of the year in the field of ancient art since it is an almost exhaustive panorama of a century of…