Acquisitions
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The National Gallery of London buys its first PechsteinWhen a major museum buys a first painting by a great artist that has been missing from its collections until now, it can’t go wrong: the National Gallery has thus set its sights on the beautiful…
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A painting by Édouard Odier offered to the Musée de la Vie romantiqueAfter the numerous recent donations to the Musée d’Orsay, Élisabeth and Jacques Foucart have once again shown their generosity, this time to the Musée de la Vie romantique, by offering it - still in…
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The Musée de la Vie romantique buys a bronze by Mélingue"Camped and draped as he was, he seemed modeled on a statue" Thus Dumas père described the actor Étienne Mélingue, whose youth before success he recounted in a story entitled Une vie d’artiste,…
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The National Gallery of Washington buys a nautilusExplorers and merchants brought back exotic objects from their travels to grace the cabinets of curiosities in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; the nautilus shell, in particular, was…
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Cluny buys the Christ by Giovanni PisanoThe dismaying exhibition of Dresden masterpieces at the Palais du Luxembourg called into question the very mission of museums by suggesting that they should sort out the art objects: "Can we…
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A landscape by Duncanson acquired by the New Britain Museum of American ArtA painter of the American West, considered one of the best landscapists of his time, Robert Seldon Duncanson was a self-taught artist born to an American father and a freed African-American…
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Exhibition, restoration, lay out, acquisition... News from the Girodet MuseumAfter the dramatic floods of 2016, the Musée Girodet had reopened, but the collections were still being restored, so not everything could be displayed yet. The situation continues to improve and…
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A three-handed painting for the V&AThis painting, by three different artists, celebrates the memory of John Somers, statesman and prominent member of the Whig party (ill. 1). He supported William of Orange and the Protestant…
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The Prado acquires a painting by ZurbaránA new painting by Francisco de Zurbarán can now be seen at the Prado. Held by a Canarian collector, it had not been allowed to leave Spanish territory. The museum was able to acquire it and thus…
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A bust by Camille Claudel for ChicagoThe effigy is fascinating, transfigured by the use of a very original polychrome patina: for the great American museum, which was eagerly seeking a sculpture by Camille Claudel, this is both an…
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