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Plusieurs achats de Fontainebleau (et du château de Pau)Trois acquisitions très récentes (la dernière date d’aujourd’hui), par le château de Pau et celui de Fontainebleau, permettent d’évoquer une importante commande de tapisseries en 1822 pour l’«…
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A new sculpture by George Minne for BostonLe département européen du Museum of Fine Arts de Boston s’est récemment enrichi d’une nouvelle sculpture de George Minne, Le petit porteur de reliques en pierre bleue. Il rejoint dans les…
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A painting by Virginia Vezzi for the LACMAille et femme d’artistes, Virginia Vezzi emprunta elle aussi la voie de la peinture. Elle se forma à Rome auprès de son père Pompeo Vezzi et fut admise en 1624 à l’Académie de Saint-Luc dont Simon…
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A Transitional chest of drawers for MarlyWas this a suggestion for presentation, or simply a wink? The hanging of the "highlights" exhibition at the Hôtel Drouot last March was full of innuendo: the dish from the "celestial blue" service of…
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The Vow of Louis XIII on display at the Musée Ingres pending the reopening of the cathedralWhile the exhibition of the preparatory drawings for The Vow of Louis XIII - in fact a display of some of the finest drawings from the collection held by the Musée Ingres - comes to an end in ten…
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Singing for the stones... and to restore themPour sauver un monument, il ne suffit pas de le restaurer, il faut le garder en vie, lui conserver un usage, si possible cohérent avec sa fonction première. C’est ce que rappelait mardi dernier le…
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Pietro Bellotti in Italian museumsette vieille femme piffarde, le sourire en coin, les yeux fixés sur le spectateur, a quelque chose d’énigmatique ; et le garçon ravi qui l’accompagne ne donne guère plus d’indices sur son identité,…
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A landscape by Bacler d’Albe acquired by MinneapolisThe Minneapolis Institute of Art has added to its European collection a large gouache by Louis-Albert-Guislain Bacler d’Albe, a prolific painter, draughtsman and engraver, known as Napoleon’s…
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Orléans: successful fundraising continuesToujours plus ! Ce pourrait être la devise du Musée des Beaux-Arts d’Orléans pour ses acquisitions. En quelques jours, la souscription lancée pour acheter le tableau La maison natale de Jeanne d’Arc…
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A new pastel by Maurice Quentin de La Tour purchased by the Musée du Louvredu LouvreLet us begin with Casanova: "During dinner, my main occupation was to study Silvia, who enjoyed the highest reputation: I judged her to be above everything that had been published about her. She was…
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A sculpture by Adriaen van Wesel acquired by AachenLe Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum d’Aix-la-Chapelle a étoffé son importante collection de sculptures de la fin du Moyen Âge d’une œuvre inédite d’Adriaen van Wesel, considéré comme l’un des sculpteurs sur…
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A large painting by Jacques Stella acquired by LyonThe website D’Histoire et d’Art maintained by Sylvain Kerspern, devoted mainly to 17th-century French painting, recently published a new update in which we learned of an acquisition made three years…
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Fundraising for the Legion of HonourIn 1811, Napoleon wrote to the Comte de Lacépède: "The decoration is a distinction granted by the Emperor. No Frenchman decorated with the Grand Eagle or the Cross of the Legion of Honour may wear it…
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A dish returns to the Palace of VersaillesThe unexpected reappearance of such an impressive vestige of King Louis XV’s legendary celestial blue service could not leave anyone indifferent: this large oval platter caught everyone’s eye in…
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Washington purchases a Louise MoillonLa National Gallery of Art de Washington emboîte le pas du Toledo Museum of Art et du Kimbell Art Museum et adjoint à ses collections européennes une première œuvre de Louise Moillon. La Nature morte…
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A French collection at auction at ArtcurialUne collection française composée pour une grande partie de peintures nordiques du XVe au XVIIe siècle, ce qui n’est pas si courant, passera en vente mercredi 30 avril chez Artcurial. Le catalogue…
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A fundraising for OrléansThe House Where Joan of Arc Was Born Before Its Restoration, with Jean-Baptiste Jollois and Charles Pensée by Jean-Antoine Laurent, presented by the Talabardon & Gautier gallery in their November…
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A painting by Luis de Morales acquired by the GettyLe Getty Museum l’annonçait il y a quelques jours, une œuvre du peintre espagnol de la Renaissance Luis de Morales a rejoint ses collections. Le fonds hispanique californien fort de plusieurs grands…
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A few clarifications on seventeenth-century French paintings at the LouvreWe made it clear in our recent article on 17th-century paintings that it concerned the Louvre and its policy on hanging and acquiring collections, and that we had worked from the Louvre database and…
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The Debussy Fountain at risk, in ParisIn our survey of Parisian fountains in 2017, we wrote of the fountain paying tribute to Claude Debussy in the square of the same name in the 16th arrondissement that it was "neither listed nor…
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A Munch acquired by CanberraLe cheval a les mêmes couleurs que le ciel, comme s’il en descendait, tandis que l’homme se détache dans des tonalités plus sombres. Un chemin, peut-être symbolique, les séparent du champ. Les deux…
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A new portrait by Jacques-Émile Blanche for OrsayThe Musée d’Orsay announced last week that a new portrait by Jacques-Émile Blanche has joined its collections. It was acquired from the Robilant+Voena gallery, which presented it at Fine Arts Paris…
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A portrait of Khnopff on display at the MetropolitanHer cherubic face has retained the innocence of childhood, but her pose is already that of an adult. The portrait of Yvonne Suys painted by Fernand Khnopff has recently been acquired by the…
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A large Kokoschka returns to DresdenCertaines œuvres connaissent (parfois) un parcours chaotique avant de gagner leur emplacement idéal, pour ne pas dire naturel et c’est ainsi que l’un des plus importants achats des musées allemands…
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Ramón Casas makes his entrance at the PradoAs important as he was as a leader of Catalan modernism, Ramón Casas did not appear until now in the collections of the Prado. A gap now filled thanks to the Fundación Amigos del Museo, which has…
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A Caillebotte for StockholmAmong the museum curators who roamed the aisles of Tefaf last March, those from the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm bought a painting by Gustave Caillebotte from the London gallery Connaught Brown.…
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A bas-relief by Henry Cros for the Musée des Arts DécoratifsLa galerie Nicolas Bourriaud l’annonçait en fin de semaine dernière, le Musée des Arts décoratifs de Paris s’est porté acquéreur d’un bas-relief en pâte de verre d’Henry Cros qu’elle proposait à la…
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