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Musée d’Orsay buys a pastel by DevambezA jack-of-all-trades, both popular and academic, André Devambez has been brought out of oblivion thanks to the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Rennes and the Petit Palais in Paris, which have devoted an…
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Claudius Popelin back at the Musée des Arts décoratifsLargely unknown nowadays but very famous in his time, Claudius Popelin had all the makings of a Renaissance humanist scholar lost in the 19th century: both a theorist and a practitioner, a…
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Several works by Charles Cottet acquired by Brestt is the sea that leads, at sunset, this long cortege of black mantises, like a procession of widows, towards the distant bell tower where Low Mass sounds; It is for the sea, no doubt, that all…
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Two paintings by Jules Boilly preempted by MontpellierThey represent the Fountain of the Three Graces on the Place de la Comédie and the Fountain of Cybele on the Place Chabanau in Montpellier, two new paintings by Jules Boilly enter the collections…
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A painting by Millet bought by CherbourgAlthough Jean-François Millet was above all a painter of peasants, he tried his hand at the great genre of history during his formative years: having left Cherbourg for Paris, he entered the École…
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A Portrait of a Capitoul by Jean Chalette for the Musée du Grand Siècleetween 1295 and 1787, the municipality of Toulouse, directed by the Capitouls (equivalent to the échevins and consuls) elected annually, enriched a large book of the city which included, among…
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Two rare Victor Hugo panels preempted by the Maison de Victor HugoWe presented them at the end of our anthology of the Talabardon & Gautier sales that SVV Ader was preparing to organise on 21 and 23 March, the two unusual ink washes on fir boards by Victor…
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A painting by Molenaer acquired by the Frans Hals MuseumSeated nonchalantly by a fireplace, a young boy stares at the viewer in an unassuming manner, with a pipe in his left hand and a mug in his right, and seems to be inviting him to join him. This…
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Two new paintings for the Musée Napoleon I in FontainebleauDecidedly better inspired when it comes to illustrating the First Empire than to evoke court life with copies, the Château de Fontainebleau could hardly have missed such a vivid sketch by Robert…
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A sketch attributed to Jean-Baptiste Deshays acquired by LangresAs we stated in the recent news items on the pair of paintings from Joseph Vernet’s studio and the drawing by Pierre-Alexandre Wille acquired by the Maison des Lumières Denis Diderot, the latter…
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