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  • A first Hammershøi for Chicago

    The Art Institute of Chicago continues to make spectacular acquisitions, adding Danish artist Vilhelm Hammershøi to its collection for €8,397,322. Acquired from Sotheby’s New York on 16 May after…

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  • An exhibition of wallpapers at the Galerie Léage

    Wallpaper (in French "papier peint") is not painted. Of course, it was in its early days, when it was created by the Chinese and adorned the walls of the sumptuous interiors described by Marco…

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  • Marseille buys a portrait by Dominique Papety

    Born in Marseilles, Dominique Papety suffered a tragic fate: he died at the age of just 34 from cholera, which he contracted during a trip to Greece. His short career was nonetheless fruitful,…

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  • A relief of Chinard finally reaches Clermont-Ferrand

    A work that is essential to understanding the work of one of the greatest sculptors of the revolutionary and Napoleonic periods has finally been delivered to its commissioner, more than two…

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  • Enamels from the Middle Ages at the Brimo de Laroussilhe gallery

    Pyxides, boxes containing Oil of Saints, reliquary shrines, bookbinding plaques and candlesticks - the Parisian gallery Brimo de Laroussilhe is bringing together an anthology of enamels from the…

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  • A Boudin preempted by the MuséoSeine

    Located in Caudebec-en-Caux (now the delegated commune of Rives-en-Seine) on the right bank of the Seine, between Le Havre and Rouen, the MuséoSeine was inaugurated in 2016. Subtitled the Museum…

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  • A new 17th-century drawing acquired by Stockholm

    A new old master drawing has joined the graphic arts collection of the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm. Still anonymous, this red chalk portrait of the great Italian collector and patron Cassiano dal…

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  • Galerie Chevalier puts antique tapestries on sale

    To obtain the keys to paradise, do we have to give up the laurels of glory? Not necessarily. Salvation and fame are both available at the Galerie Chevalier. Among the sumptuous tapestries on the…

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  • Three paintings sold by a French prefecture...

    The sale, which is online only, closes tomorrow at 11am. So it’s very late to be talking about it, but we didn’t find out about it until yesterday, Sunday, and we didn’t get a full reply (obviously…

  • A painting by Raden Saleh returns to the Louvre

    We have just learned from France Info that a painting long-term loaned by the Louvre to Saint-Amand-Montrond is to be restored and returned to Paris for good. It is a rare canvas - the only one…

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  • The Palais de la Porte Dorée looks after its Art Deco heritage

    How can we not talk about resurrection? A complete décor has been reborn for visitors to this iconic French Art Deco monument : the beautiful Salon des Laques has been restored to its original…

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  • Fabrizio Moretti opens a gallery in Paris

    There could be no better symbol of the dynamism of the Paris art market than the arrival of a new gallery devoted to old painters. The one that has just opened its doors on Place du Louvre, next…

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  • A Manet and a Cassatt for Atlanta

    She appears in several works by Édouard Manet: Madame Jules Guillemet, born Jeanne Julie Charlotte Besnier de la Pontonnerie, epitomised the Parisian woman of the Belle Epoque. She and her husband…

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  • Four new American Impressionist paintings for Giverny

    In addition to the three Eugène Boudin paintings recently added to the Musée des Impressionnismes collection, four new paintings by American Impressionists Mary Colman Wheeler and Theodore Earl…

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  • A drawing by Anthelme-François Lagrenée for Chicago

    Very impressive, this large drawing by Anthelme-François Lagrenée is well known to readers of La Tribune de l’Art where we have already reproduced it twice: at the time of its sale at the Hôtel…

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  • A Manfredi for the Met

    A single solemnity for two saints: Peter and Paul are celebrated on the same day, considered to be the two pillars of the Church, one the stone on which it is built, the other the apostle to the…

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  • A relief by François Du Quesnoy for Boston

    François Du Quesnoy’s plump, chubby putti made his reputation, sometimes to the point of overshadowing the rest of his work, or tarnishing it with numerous replicas and copies that were widely…

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  • A new Marquet offered to Le Havre

    Promised to the Musée d’Art moderne André Malraux thanks to a donation subject to usufruct from Rogelio Martinez de Federico and Serge Sadry, Notre-Dame de Paris in the Snow by Albert Marquet is on…

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  • A major bequest for the Musée d’Art de Nantes

    Some collectors are well known to museums, forge privileged relationships with them, and end up donating one work, sometimes several, or even an entire collection. This was not the case with…

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  • Some online art history journals (2)

    Here we continue our list of art history journals freely available on the Internet, pointing out an error when we updated the page that lists them all, because the old URL was no longer the…

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  • Some online art history journals (1)

    As we’ve often written, online art-history journals - we’re talking here about journals publishing in-depth articles, not art-history and heritage information websites - are numerous, but complex…

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