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A painting by Jacques Stella given to the LouvreJacques Stella depicted the Saint Family on several occasions, varying the number of figures from one version to another. One of his paintings, intended for private devotion, features Mary, Jesus…
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A first painting by Edelfelt for the Petit PalaisA familiar image in French school textbooks, the Portrait of Louis Pasteur by Albert Edelfelt was paradoxically much better known in this country than its author, who was nevertheless the first…
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A donation of Italian drawings from the Ottocento to YaleThe New Haven Museum has just received a major acquisition: an entire collection of nineteenth-century Italian drawings has been donated and sold by New York collectors Roberta Olson and…
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A painting by Cornelis de Baellieur for KasselThe Gemäldegalerie in Kassel received as a gift from a collector last year a painting by the Flemish painter Cornelis de Baellieur depicting the Christ Carrying His Cross, painted on copper and of…
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Two pieces of furniture from Marie-Antoinette return to VersaillesScrutinised with attention by a number of connoisseurs, the astonishing "Jacques Garcia, Intemporel" sale held at Sotheby’s in Paris on Tuesday afternoon certainly disappointed a few hopes -…
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Lyon gets a new Fleury RichardFleury Richard is credited with the invention of a new style that was later called troubadour painting, the first example of which was his Valentine of Milan mourning the death of her husband,…
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A painting by Rachel Ruysch and Michiel van Musscher for the Metropolitan Museum of Art18/5/23 - Acquisition - New York, Metropolitan Museum - At a time when American and European museums have made the acquisition of female artists a top priority, the European Paintings department…
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Two paintings by Sartorio acquired by OrsayA protean Roman artist who was a painter, sculptor, illustrator, architect, photographer, writer and film-maker, Giulio Aristide Sartorio was largely ignored by French critics and remained a…
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A painting by Pedro Orrente acquired by the PradoAdonis is the fruit of incest, born of the union of Myrrha with her own father, Cinyras, king of Cyprus. The arrogant Cinyras had claimed that his daughter’s beauty surpassed that of Aphrodite.…
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The Musée d’Orsay buys a new GérômeWhile Jean-Léon Gérôme is not uncommon on the art market, it was a puzzling effigy that awaited enthusiasts on the Gallery 19C booth at the last Tefaf in Maastricht: this Child with a Mask intrigues…
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