A large canvas by the painter Hippolyte Pierre Delanoy, The Desk of Citizen Carnot or The Table of Citizen Carnot, has just been hung in the Musée de la Révolution Française in Vizille. Passed…
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The Musée de Vizille hangs one of its recent acquisitions
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L’invité de La Tribune de l’Art n° 11 - 17/4/24 : Nicolas Schwed Subscriber content
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A new Antigna pour Orléans Subscriber content
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The Louvre buys a drawing by Jacques Bellange Subscriber content
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A drawing by Laurent Guyot for the Mobilier national Subscriber content
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A terracotta by Pierino da Vinci for Cleveland Subscriber content
News Items
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A painting by Alonso Cano acquired for Córdoba
Bent over or standing, with his arms tied behind his back or on his stomach, surrounded by his executioners or alone, Christ at the column is a subject that allows artists to depict a naked body,…
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A new watercolour by Eugène Lami for the Musée Condé
On 22 March this year, the Château de Chantilly, which is now very active in terms of acquisitions because it knows how to find sponsors to replace the budgets it lacks, preempted a watercolour by…
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Death of Dominique Ponnau
Dominique Ponnau, conservateur général du Patrimoine et directeur de l’École du Louvre de 1982 à 2002, s’est éteint le 7 avril 2024. Beaucoup, notamment parmi ses anciens élèves, se souviendront de son…
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A first Boilly for the Musée de l’Armée
This is an atypical drawing for Boilly, who rarely painted military subjects, but it is also a reminder that the artist was rather discreet from the start of the French Revolution, during which…
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Policy
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Budget cancellations: a new blow to France’s heritage
The Ministry of the Budget (obviously in collusion with the Élysée Palace) has just wiped €10 billion off France’s budget with the stroke of a pen, despite the fact that the budget was debated in…
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Rachida Dati’s hot heritage issues in Paris
France’s new Minister of Culture didn’t get off to a great start when she approved the ’relocation-reconstruction’ of the Institut Curie’s Pavillon des Sources... But while the future of this Parisian…
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Madam Minister for Culture, don’t let yourself be fooled by Vianney d’Alançon
In an article posted online yesterday on the Figaro website, the director of the Rocher Mistral theme park (whose co-shareholders are the Dassault, Michelin and Montagne families) made a…
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Notre-Dame: archaeological digs sacrificed to meet deadlines
Has the Établissement public in charge of Notre-Dame, under pressure to meet the deadlines imposed by the French President, who wants the monument to reopen on 8 December 2024, vandalised precious…
Heritage
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Notre-Dame: a very intrusive choir organ
Notre-Dame should not be a playground for the French President of the Republic or the Archbishop of Paris. No doubt they think they have some legitimacy in the decisions they take, but they have…
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L’invité de La Tribune de l’Art n° 9 - 3/4/24 : Alexandre d’Andoque
It’s been over a year since we last produced a podcast, mainly due to time constraints. We’re going to try to be more regular in future, but we prefer not to commit ourselves unless we’re sure we…
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Three new databases
We’ve been announcing it for a long time, but this time it’s done: our databases are being enriched, and no fewer than three new ones will be added to the existing Stella database, which lists…
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A short lesson on the protection of historic monuments, for Jean-François Martins, Director of the Eiffel Tower operating company
It’s one thing for politicians to talk rubbish about the legislation governing historic monuments, but it’s quite another for them to be able to do so over and over again on the airwaves without…
Exhibitions
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Jean Mayodon. Precious earth
Only 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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A world of light. Stained glass windows by Francis Chigot and his workshop
She is an ideal ambassador to welcome the many visitors to this fascinating exhibition, which is the result of an intelligent and fruitful collaboration between two regional institutions: the…
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Horace Vernet
At the 1855 Universal Exhibition, which took the place of the Salon and where foreign schools came to confront the French school, the latter put four painters in the limelight, who benefited from…
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Drawings from Bruegel to Rubens in Flemish Collections
The opportunity to admire such a fine collection of Flemish drawings is so rare that we can only regret having missed the opening in autumn 2023 of this exciting Antwerp exhibition, which has…
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Museums
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L’invité de La Tribune de l’Art n° 10 - 10/4/24 : Rodolphe Rapetti
Cette semaine, nous recevons Rodolphe Rapetti, le directeur du château de Compiègne. Nous avons récemment consacré plusieurs articles à ce château-musée à propos de la réouverture du Musée de…
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The Beauvoisine Museum in Rouen: a ruinous and destructive project
When we met the new director of Rouen’s museums at a press briefing, he told us about the "vast architectural and museographic renovation project" for the two museums in the rue Beauvoisine, the…
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An ugly painting? Yes, but by a woman! So it’s fine...
Le Rijksmuseum a acquis d’autres œuvres à la TEFAF dont nous parlerons ultérieurement, mais la seule pour laquelle elle s’est fendue d’un communiqué triomphal est le Portrait de Moses Ter Borch à l’âge…
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Successful reopening of the Draguignan museum
Some museums are no longer fulfilling their mission (see several recent articles). It is fortunate, however, that others are doing exactly the opposite, and that some towns are realising the…
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Art Market
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The third Paris Print Fair Subscriber content
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The "Semaine du Dessin" in Paris galleries (5) Subscriber content
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The "Semaine du Dessin" in Paris galleries (3) Subscriber content
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The Salon du Dessin 2024 is now open Subscriber content
Itineraries
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A French artist’s decor at Sant’Andrea al Quirinale Subscriber content
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A visit to the church of Saint-Rémy in Troyes Subscriber content
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Découverte d’une peinture murale d’Amaury-Duval et de son esquisse Subscriber content
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Le Musée de Semur-en-Auxois, un voyage dans le temps Subscriber content
Publications
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Pierre Subleyras 1699-1749 Subscriber content
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Just published: books received from 27 July to 16 November 2023 Subscriber content
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Just published: books received from 1st April to 26 July 2023 Subscriber content
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L’invité de La Tribune de l’Art n° 10 - 10/4/24 : Rodolphe Rapetti
Cette semaine, nous recevons Rodolphe Rapetti, le directeur du château de Compiègne. Nous avons récemment consacré plusieurs articles à ce château-musée à propos de la réouverture du Musée de…
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L’invité de La Tribune de l’Art n° 9 - 3/4/24 : Alexandre d’Andoque
It’s been over a year since we last produced a podcast, mainly due to time constraints. We’re going to try to be more regular in future, but we prefer not to commit ourselves unless we’re sure we…
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L’invité de La Tribune de l’Art n° 8 - 28/2/23 : Pierre Ouzoulias
For 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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L’invité de La Tribune de l’Art n° 7 - 17/2/23 : Jérôme Tomaselli
Jérôme Tomaselli is a passionate and fascinating collector, an art bulimic who has assembled an impressive collection of paintings and drawings from Lyon (but not only) from all periods and who has…
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L’invité de La Tribune de l’Art n° 6 - 19/1/23 : Jane MacAvock
Nous recevons cette semaine comme invitée de La Tribune de l’Art l’historienne de l’art indépendante Jane MacAvock, qui vient nous parler notamment de Jean Daret, le peintre provençal dont elle est la…
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L’invité de La Tribune de l’Art n° 5 - 5/1/23 : Matthieu Fournier
Après quelques semaines d’interruption en raison des fêtes de fin d’année qui ont rendu difficile, pour des raisons d’emploi du temps, l’enregistrement de l’émission, nous revenons en ce début 2023 avec…
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