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A major bequest for the Musée d’Art de NantesSome collectors are well known to museums, forge privileged relationships with them, and end up donating one work, sometimes several, or even an entire collection. This was not the case with…
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Acquisitions: news from the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes (2)Our previous news item about the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Rennes (which dealt with restorations and the launch of the online collections database) was published in March. We should have published…
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Seventy-five Sèvres pieces donated in lieu of taxes to VersaillesAccustomed to proceeding in small steps, according to the opportunities offered by the art market and the goodwill of collectors, the teams at Versailles have learnt to be patient when it comes…
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The Frans Hals Museum buys a painting by Cornelis Van HaarlemThis kitchen scene is an exception in the work of Cornelis van Haarlem. Along with Karel Van Mander and Hendrick Goltzius, he was one of the leading figures of Haarlem Mannerism, producing mainly…
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A Liotard for ChicagoNoticed at the last TEFAF, where it was exhibited on the stand of the London gallery Lowell Libson & Jonny Yarker, this portrait by Jean-Étienne Liotard has finally joined the collections of…
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The Studio of Alphonse de Neuville by Marie-Désiré Bourgoin acquired by OrsayAlthough Marie-Désiré Bourgoin is a little known artist, the fame of Sarah Bernhardt, to whom the Musée du Petit Palais devoted an exhibition that has just ended, helped to make some of his works…
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A new Géricault for the Metropolitan MuseumThanks to a gift from Christopher Forbes, this major American museum has just acquired a new painting by Théodore Géricault. The small-scale work is not an easy subject, since it depicts General…
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A painting by Aimée Brune-Pagès for the Musée de PicardieVisitors to the Amiens institution, as well as readers of La Tribune de l’Art, know how proud this museum can be of its dense 19th-century collections, where the greatest names cohabit…
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A painting by Stanzione donated to WashingtonPaintings that do not depict slaves or that are not painted by women can enter the National Gallery in Washington, but this is now quite rare. Fortunately, there are still donors who are not…
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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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