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  • A painting by Beccafumi for the Pinacoteca di Siena

    Since February, this Italian museum, now run by a Frenchman, the former director of the Musée des Augustins in Toulouse, Axel Hémery, has been showing a new painting by the 16th-century Sienese…

  • A painting by Edward Mitchell Bannister for Worcester

    Slavery had been abolished for almost thirty years when Edward Mitchell Bannister painted this work, which at first sight seems to depict an idyllic nature or at least a picturesque country…

  • A first sculpture by Camille Claudel for Stockholm

    Although its collections include a fine group of sculptures and drawings by Auguste Rodin, the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm previously held no works by his pupil, assistant and companion Camille…

  • A Caravaggesque spring at Versailles

    Sent to board in Amiens for the duration of the "Louis XV, passions d’un roi" exhibition, the "masterpieces from the King’s bedroom" naturally returned to Versailles in the spring, although they…

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  • A first work by Giuseppe Abbati for the Metropolitan

    The Metropolitan Museum’s renowned collection of European paintings has been enriched with its first work by Giuseppe Abbati, one of the leading exponents of the Macchiaioli. Acquired from the…

  • A painting by Niccolò Betti donated to the Uffizi

    In memory of his father, Alfredo Moretti, a famous Tuscan art dealer, Fabrizio Moretti, Secretary General of the Florence International Biennial of Antiquaries, has donated to the Uffizi Museum a…

  • Orsay acquires a bust by Maillol

    On private loan, it was presented during the first two Parisian and Zurich stages of the remarkable Maillol retrospective exhibition which will end in Roubaix in a few days. The terracotta bust…

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  • A painting by Jacques Stella given to the Louvre

    Jacques Stella depicted the Saint Family on several occasions, varying the number of figures from one version to another. One of his paintings, intended for private devotion, features Mary, Jesus…

  • A first painting by Edelfelt for the Petit Palais

    A familiar image in French school textbooks, the Portrait of Louis Pasteur by Albert Edelfelt was paradoxically much better known in this country than its author, who was nevertheless the first…

  • A painting by Cornelis de Baellieur for Kassel

    The Gemäldegalerie in Kassel received as a gift from a collector last year a painting by the Flemish painter Cornelis de Baellieur depicting the Christ Carrying His Cross, painted on copper and of…

  • Lyon gets a new Fleury Richard

    Fleury Richard is credited with the invention of a new style that was later called troubadour painting, the first example of which was his Valentine of Milan mourning the death of her husband,…

  • Two paintings by Sartorio acquired by Orsay

    A protean Roman artist who was a painter, sculptor, illustrator, architect, photographer, writer and film-maker, Giulio Aristide Sartorio was largely ignored by French critics and remained a…

  • A painting by Pedro Orrente acquired by the Prado

    Adonis is the fruit of incest, born of the union of Myrrha with her own father, Cinyras, king of Cyprus. The arrogant Cinyras had claimed that his daughter’s beauty surpassed that of Aphrodite.…

  • The Musée d’Orsay buys a new Gérôme

    While Jean-Léon Gérôme is not uncommon on the art market, it was a puzzling effigy that awaited enthusiasts on the Gallery 19C booth at the last Tefaf in Maastricht: this Child with a Mask intrigues…

  • The bay horse of Henri IV arrives in Pau

    t was undoubtedly one of the most beautiful paintings of the Talabardon & Gautier sales, which we had already spotted on their gallery stand during the 2017 edition of Tefaf New York devoted…

  • A Peasant by Dalou enters the Met

    Aimé-Jules Dalou saw himself as an artisan, belonging to the working class. A fervent republican, his sculptures bore witness to an artistic project in keeping with his human convictions. For him,…