Bénédicte Bonnet Saint-Georges
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Rennes seeks sponsors to restore a tapestry cartonAs Fate would have it, some of the tapestries from the Parlement de Bretagne that were not destroyed in the fire of 1994 disappeared in 1997 in a fire in the restoration workshop where they had…
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A Zoffany for EnglandL’acteur Robert Baddeley incarna le rôle stéréotypé du Juif usurier dans la pièce de Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal ou L’Ecole de la médisance. Présentée en 1777 au théâtre royal de…
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The Groninger Museum buys a painting by Herman ColleniusIt’s the second shot that catches the eye: behind the allegory of Time, embodied by a magnificent old man with his scythe and hourglass, appears one of the oldest representations of the city of…
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Two acquisitions for the Musée BonnardIt’s not really a portrait. When he painted little Isabelle Lecomte du Noüy in Le Cannet in 1929, Pierre Bonnard captured all the charm of childhood under his brush (ill. 1). The little girl is…
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Fundraising launched to restore Saint-Louis de VincennesOf course, you have to push open the door. From the street, its silhouette is austere, clad in millstone and red brick, but inside, the Saint-Louis de Vincennes church reveals admirable…
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A sculpture by Gustave Doré for Orsay"It was not the least of the Salon’s astonishments to find G. Doré authoritatively marking his place among the sculptors with a large and highly poetic group: La Parque et l’Amour The public is…
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Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen. The centenary exhibitionThere’s still time to go and see the exhibition that the Musée de Montmartre is devoting to Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen to mark the centenary of his death. Born in Lausanne in 1859, the painter…
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A work by James Ensor acquired by FlandersIn 2023, the twentieth anniversary of the Flemish Masterpieces Decree was celebrated: promulgated on January 24, 2003, the Topstukkendecreet’s mission is to protect Flemish movable cultural…
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Musée Cognacq-Jay: hanging of pastels and recent acquisitionThe Musée Cognacq-Jay is currently presenting its collection of pastels, some fifteen in all. While there is no special reason for this display, it does allow us to see works that are too fragile…
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The Musée Jeanne d’Aboville restores its collectionsThe restored painting returned to the collections of the Musée Jeanne d’Aboville in La Fère last December, but not for long, as it will be loaned to the Musée de Besançon next spring. Its restoration…
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