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Marie and Félix Bracquemond on sale at ArtcurialFirst and foremost, this is an exhibition not to be missed under any circumstances, even if it is unfortunately only open this Friday, Saturday and then Monday before the sale of the entire…
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Two new busts by Charles Cordier for OrsayTwo new busts by Charles Cordier have been added to the fine collection of works by this pioneer of polychrome sculpture under the Second Empire already held by the Musée d’Orsay, which initiated…
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An unpublished drawing by Goltzius enters the Fondation CustodiaAlors que va ouvrir dans deux jours une exposition consacrée aux douze années d’acquisitions faites par le regretté Ger Luijten, disparu il y a maintenant plus d’un an, celle-ci vient d’acquérir, en…
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A work by Rebecca Solomon for two English museumsIt is a painting that has everything to please today’s museums, presented as ‘a complex reflection on gender, race, religion and education in mid-nineteenth-century London’. Painted in 1861 by a…
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A Mars by Giambologna crosses the AtlanticTrès admiré à Londres en juillet 2023 puis à Maastricht en mars 2024, le très beau Mars de Giambologna que proposait Stuart Lochhead ne pouvait qu’intéresser les grands musées nord-américains et c’est…
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Sylvain Amic appointed head of the Musée d’OrsaySince the announcement of Christophe Leribault’s departure for Versailles last February, this was one of the most eagerly awaited appointments. Although a short list of candidates had been…
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Restorations at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in RennesThe DJ (or disc-jockeys) of electro music - the Shindi collective - asked the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Rennes to shoot a video clip in the heart of the permanent exhibition. There was no danger to…
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A marble by Félicie de Fauveau for the Detroit Institute of ArtDecidedly fond of the works of the Romantic sculptor Félicie de Fauveau, the major American museums are pursuing an active policy of enrichment at a brisk pace, from which we sometimes miss…
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A relief by François Du Quesnoy for BostonFrançois 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 HavrePromised 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 NantesSome 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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Acquisitions: news from the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes (2)Our previous news item about the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Rennes (which dealt with restorations and the launch of the online collections database) was published in March. We should have published…
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Seventy-five Sèvres pieces donated in lieu of taxes to VersaillesAccustomed to proceeding in small steps, according to the opportunities offered by the art market and the goodwill of collectors, the teams at Versailles have learnt to be patient when it comes…
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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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The Frans Hals Museum buys a painting by Cornelis Van HaarlemThis kitchen scene is an exception in the work of Cornelis van Haarlem. Along with Karel Van Mander and Hendrick Goltzius, he was one of the leading figures of Haarlem Mannerism, producing mainly…
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Fundraising to restore the Bulliot VirginThe hoped-for sum has almost been raised! Last June, a fundraising campaign was launched to finance the restoration of the so-called the Bulliot Virgin, a Gothic masterpiece from the Musée d’Autun…
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A Liotard for ChicagoNoticed at the last TEFAF, where it was exhibited on the stand of the London gallery Lowell Libson & Jonny Yarker, this portrait by Jean-Étienne Liotard has finally joined the collections of…
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The Studio of Alphonse de Neuville by Marie-Désiré Bourgoin acquired by OrsayAlthough Marie-Désiré Bourgoin is a little known artist, the fame of Sarah Bernhardt, to whom the Musée du Petit Palais devoted an exhibition that has just ended, helped to make some of his works…
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Apollon finally returns to VersaillesIn many respects, some of the jewels in the national collections are like survivors, having outlived both natural disasters and the upheavals of history, not to mention the harmful consequences…
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A new Géricault for the Metropolitan MuseumThanks to a gift from Christopher Forbes, this major American museum has just acquired a new painting by Théodore Géricault. The small-scale work is not an easy subject, since it depicts General…
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A painting by Aimée Brune-Pagès for the Musée de PicardieVisitors to the Amiens institution, as well as readers of La Tribune de l’Art, know how proud this museum can be of its dense 19th-century collections, where the greatest names cohabit…
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A painting by Stanzione donated to WashingtonPaintings that do not depict slaves or that are not painted by women can enter the National Gallery in Washington, but this is now quite rare. Fortunately, there are still donors who are not…
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Death of General Jean-Louis GeorgelinThe information comes from the newspaper L’Opinion and was tweeted less than an hour ago, and we have been able to confirm it. General Jean-Louis Georgelin, who had been appointed to head the…
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A 17th-century chess set donated to the Grünes GewölbeSome birthday presents are more amusing than others: all visitors to the 2022 edition of Tefaf Maastricht (see article) will remember this marvellous ebony and ivory chessboard that seemed to…
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A painting by Rochegrosse acquired by the Petit PalaisIt is difficult to know whether this Japanese from Workshop is really Sarah Bernhardt. The painting is by Georges Rochegrosse, who represented the actress on several occasions. It was bought by…
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A Letourneur sculpture donated to CherbourgFlesh that you cut, old chap, it’s a disturbing thing, you love it and you’re afraid of it, it vibrates so much. But it’s very difficult to work, it’s as hard as a donkey and the tools only go…
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