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Rouen buys a drawing by IngresElle a libéré Orléans, elle fut brûlée à Rouen. Les musées des Beaux-Arts de ces deux villes ont en commun de consacrer dans leur collections une section aux œuvres d’art en lien avec Jeanne d’Arc. C’est…
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A drawing by Toussaint Dubreuil for the BnFAssis au premier plan et doté de tenailles, Vulcain joue le rôle de figure repoussoir, tandis qu’au fond, les Cyclopes s’affairent devant la forge (
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A Brancusi exhibition thanks to future renovations at the Centre PompidouSecondary school students should be revising for their philosophy exams at the Centre Pompidou, where the exhibition devoted to Constantin Brancusi will give them the opportunity to tackle a…
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National Gallery of Art acquires a painting by Elizabeth Okie PaxtonRather than depicting a female nude languidly reclining on a bed, Elizabeth Okie Paxton chose not to show it, but to evoke its presence in a cleverly organised bedroom. So she paints a genre…
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The new directors of the museums of Lille and StrasbourgNew curators have arrived at the helm of the museums of Lille and Strasbourg in recent months. The Palais des Beaux-Arts and the Musée de l’Hospice Comtesse in Lille have been headed by Juliette…
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Fundraising for the Musée des Impressionnismes de GivernyThe first Impressionist exhibition opened in Paris in 1874. Several museums are celebrating this 150th anniversary, including the one in Giverny, which has the audacity to tackle a relatively…
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A tapestry by Gerhard Munthe acquired by OrsayPurchased from the Oscar Graf gallery, a large tapestry by the Norwegian Gerhard Munthe joins the collections of the Musée d’Orsay, which is continuing its active policy of acquiring Scandinavian…
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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 Cour des Comptes investigates the sale of the Grignon furnitureIn France, an ordinance relating to the financial responsibility regime of public managers has recently modified the conditions under which public managers can be sanctioned for their actions.…
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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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Death of François BergotWriting an obituary is a delicate exercise, and even more so when one did not know the person in question. Nevertheless, we feel it is necessary to pay tribute to great curators. We have received…
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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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Laurence Madeline appointed director of Besançon’s museumsAfter six fruitful years at the head of the Besançon museums, Nicolas Surlapierre took over the direction of the Mac/Val in Vitry-sur-Seine last October, following the departure of Alexia Fabre…
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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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Two restorations for the Jean Bardin exhibition in OrléansThe few reservations we had about Jean Bardin’s large church paintings seemed to make some people think that this called into question both the painter’s interest and that of the exhibition. This…
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A Bourdelle for the Montauban museumIt is not known who Marcelle Coquard was, portrayed by Antoine Bourdelle at the age of 15. Her plaster bust was purchased from the Galerie La Nouvelle Athènes by the Musée Ingres in Montauban, the…
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A painting by Joseph-Désiré Court for RouenLocated in the house where Gustave Flaubert was born, in a wing of the former Hôtel-Dieu of Rouen, the Musée Flaubert et d’Histoire de la Médecine has a literary and scientific vocation. It evokes…
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A painting by Scheffer acquired by MontargisThe Girodet Museum in Montargis has acquired from the Galerie Talabardon & Gautier a painting by Ary Scheffer representing The Farewells of Girodet to his workshop. There were many accounts…
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Pierre Stépanoff appointed Director of the Musée de PicardieThe recent departure of Laure Dalon - who moved to Toulouse to head the Musée des Augustins in the autumn - left a vacancy at Amiens, where she worked between 2009 and 2012 before taking over as…
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Un tableau de Poelenburgh pour le Musée de PicardieParce qu’il aimait peupler ses œuvres de nymphes et autres femmes dénudées, Cornelis van Poelenburgh prit le surnom de «Satyre» lorsqu’il rejoignit le groupe des Bentvueghels à Rome. En effet, après…
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Deux nouvelles aquarelles pour OrsayNous le soulignions récemment encore, les collections d’art britannique et d’art scandinave du Musée d’Orsay comptent parmi les objets privilégiés de son actuelle politique d’acquisition. Après…
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Un portrait de la Renaissance offert au Metropolitan Museum of ArtFort curieusement, il s’agit de la première peinture sur marbre acquise par le grand musée américain, toujours plus riche en chefs-d’oeuvre : quelques semaines après l’entrée d’un superbe portrait de…
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