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  • Orsay acquires a bust by Maillol

    On private loan, it was presented during the first two Parisian and Zurich stages of the remarkable Maillol retrospective exhibition which will end in Roubaix in a few days. The terracotta bust…

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  • A painting by Jacques Stella given to the Louvre

    Jacques 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…

  • A first painting by Edelfelt for the Petit Palais

    A 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…

  • A painting by Cornelis de Baellieur for Kassel

    The 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…

  • Lyon gets a new Fleury Richard

    Fleury 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,…

  • Two paintings by Sartorio acquired by Orsay

    A 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…

  • A painting by Pedro Orrente acquired by the Prado

    Adonis 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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