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  • Grenoble gets a fine Dandré-Bardon

    Fièrement signé en bas à droite par l’artiste, ce tableau inédit de Michel-François Dandré-Bardon nous transporte du Salon de 1737 jusqu’aux tous premiers temps du christianisme grâce à sa composition…

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  • A painting by Melchior de la Mars for Gand

    The works of Melchior de la Mars combine the influence of Caravaggio with late Mannerism. Almost nothing is known about this Flemish painter, except that he was active in Ghent around 1620,…

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  • A new Monet for Orsay

    Acquise par dation, une nouvelle toile de Claude Monet rejoint la collection de référence d’œuvres de l’artiste conservée par le musée d’Orsay. Restée en mains privées depuis son départ de l’atelier de…

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  • A drawing by La Fosse for Lille

    A late painting by Charles de La Fosse, The Handing over of the Keys to Saint Peter is kept at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Lille. It was recently joined by a preparatory drawing, which sold for…

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  • Stijn Alsteens appointed director of the Fondation Custodia

    The information was to remain confidential until midday so that the news could first be announced to the employees of the Fondation Custodia. But we learned of it yesterday through indiscretions,…

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  • A great Le Barbier for Stockholm

    A harmonious combination of large format and seductive composition, The Triumph of Flora painted around 1777 by Jean-Jacques François Le Barbier the Elder was bound to interest a museum, and it…

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  • A work by the Master of the Corsi Crucifix for Florence

    This Christ on the Cross took pride of place on dealer Fabrizio Moretti’s stand at the 2022 Florence International Biennial of Antiquities. The Florentine gallery owner, based in London, Monaco…

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  • Preemption of the Musée du Grand Siècle at the Artcurial sale

    Musée de beaux-arts, le futur Musée du Grand Siècle a également pour objectif de faire comprendre aux visiteurs tous les aspects de la vie au XVIIe siècle. Le tableau qu’il vient de préempter chez…

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  • Ruth and Booz by Charles Gleyre preempted by the Musée Fabre

    Le Ruth et Booz de Charles Gleyre qu’a préempté le Musée Fabre à la vente Artcurial du 22 novembre est à la fois un chef-d’œuvre de cet artiste dont une rétrospective avait été présentée à Lausanne en…

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  • A Cassatt for the Fondation Bemberg

    This young girl portrayed by Mary Cassatt in 1879 is inevitably reminiscent of the famous portrait of Berthe Morisot with a bouquet of violets, Édouard Manet’s masterpiece of 1872. Finally, the…

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  • A new Muse by Philippe Quantin preempted by Dijon

    Set in a spare architectural décor, surrounded by a variety of musical instruments and draped in an ample red drapery, the muse Euterpe plays a long flute, as indicated by the inscription on the…

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  • Exhibition in Paris galleries: Talabardon & Gautier

    In our article at the beginning of the year announcing the Talabardon & Gautier sale at Hôtel Drouot, we expressed the hope that these would bounce back. It did not take long for this wish to…

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  • Exhibitions in Paris galleries: Bordes, Poncelin de Raucourt, Néouze

    "A woman with a fan is stronger than a man with a sword", as Anne-Françoise-Hippolyte Boutet, known as Mademoiselle Mars, liked to say. The famous actress was portrayed by the greatest artists,…

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  • Exhibitions in Paris galleries: Nouvelle Athènes and Chaptal

    Twice a year, the Galerie La Nouvelle Athènes presents works mainly from the 19th century, and publishes a catalogue to mark the occasion. This year, November 2023, is no exception to tradition,…

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  • What will become of Louis XV’s commode?

    Curious onlookers, connoisseurs, experts and dealers flocked to the Saint-Germain-en-Laye auction house this morning, where - for less than three days - an exceptional piece of furniture finally…

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  • Exhibitions in Paris galleries: Moretti and Galerie Canesso

    The plague, with its buboes and corpses, inspired miracles in saints and masterpieces in artists, as witnessed by Antonio Gherardi’s Saint Charles Borromeo Giving the Eucharist to the Pestiferous.…

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  • First Millet painting acquired by the Van Gogh Museum

    While the Van Gogh Museum already featured a painting by Jean-François Millet in its permanent collection, this Girl Carrying Water was on loan from the neighboring Rijksmuseum, and only one…

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  • Helene Schjerfbeck enters the Metropolitan Museum and Orsay

    Hitherto absent from American and French museum collections, the Finnish painter Helene Schjerfbeck has entered the Metropolitan Museum and the Musée d’Orsay at almost the same time. The New York…

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  • German Baroque drawings by Nicolas Schwed

    From now until December 7, Nicolas Schwed is presenting a museum-level exhibition of German Baroque drawings in the premises he shares with Étienne Bréton at 346, rue Saint-Honoré. And it’s likely…

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  • A dream Fragonard at Artcurial

    Artcurial is offering another fine sale of paintings and sculptures (including a number of drawings) next week. One of the most talked-about paintings is sure to set bids alight, especially as it…

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  • Marie-Madeleine classified as a National Treasure

    Here is a work of immediate appeal, whose rarity and historical importance for medieval sculpture have often been hailed by specialists: proposed at Azur Enchères in Cannes on June 14th,…

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  • Orsay acquires a work by Georges de Feure

    Siegfried Bing played a leading role in the revival of the decorative arts. In 1895, he opened his shop "L’Art nouveau" in Paris, which gave its name to the famous artistic movement that…

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  • A sumptuous "classic week" at Christie’s in Paris

    Should this be seen as a tribute to the famous Rothschild taste, to which the auction house strives to pay homage? Christie’s seems to have opted for accumulation, compiling up to seven (!) sales…

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  • Sculptures for sale at Sotheby’s

    Neptune and Juno emerge from the marble. These reliefs, attributed to the entourage of Jean Goujon and dated between 1550 and 1570, were part of a set depicting the four elements. Juno on her…

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  • Two paintings by Jacques Dumont le Romain for Versailles

    If there will probably never be an exhibition devoted to Marie-Josèphe de Saxe (1731-1767), it’s not just because she never ascended the throne : the mother of the last three kings of France was…

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  • A first 15th-century drawing for Leuven

    This is the very first drawing to join the fifteenth-century collection held by the Museum Leuven. Done by an artist in Rogier van der Weyden’s circle, this Swoon of the Virgin, executed in brown…

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  • The Sorolla Museum acquires a new painting

    Sorolla was not always the "painter of light" appreciated for his dazzling beach scenes). One example of this is the Head of Saint Anthony, which was preempted by the Spanish State and sold for…

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