A Navez for Orléans, and another one for the Metropolitan Museum

29/9/25 - Acquisition - Orléans, Musée des Beaux-Arts and New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Readers of La Tribune de l’Art are now familiar with Antoine Béal, a Parisian collector and tireless patron of French museums, who regularly donates works to them, either under usufruct or outright ownership, as was the case with a painting to the Musée Girodet [1]. For more information on the donor, we refer to this news item of 12 June last, while also recalling the recent donation of a Lagrenée to Amiens (see the news item of 16/9/25).

At the exhibition of his…