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  • Strasbourg’s Vouet restored

    It is one of the masterpieces of the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg, but visitors were desperate to be able to admire the Saint Catherine by Simon Vouet, acquired in 2019. A delicate…

  • A Caravaggesque spring at Versailles

    Sent to board in Amiens for the duration of the "Louis XV, passions d’un roi" exhibition, the "masterpieces from the King’s bedroom" naturally returned to Versailles in the spring, although they…

  • 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…

  • Two restorations for the Jean Bardin exhibition in Orléans

    The few reservations we had about Jean Bardin’s large church paintings seemed to make some people think that this called into question both the painter’s interest and that of the exhibition. This…

  • Madonna et Langlois, une passion française

    Nous avions dit que nous n’en parlerions pas, et c’est déjà la deuxième fois que nous l’évoquons : il s’agit bien sûr de l’ « affaire » Madonna, du désormais fameux tableau de Jérôme Martin Langlois qu’elle…

  • La restauration de la façade de la Madeleine

    Consternante dans tous les domaines, la Mairie de Paris s’est révélée un peu meilleure ces dernières années, comme nous avons eu l’occasion de le constater, sur les restaurations de ses monuments…

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