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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An unpublished drawing by Goltzius enters the Fondation CustodiaAlors que va ouvrir dans deux jours une exposition consacrée aux douze années d’acquisitions faites par le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 painting by Pietro Ricchi for VeniceA painting acquired by the Gallerie dell’Accademia in Venice brings to mind an artist who is difficult to pin down: Pietro Ricchi, nicknamed "il Lucchese". The work, bought on 16 November 2022 at…
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A drawing by Jacob de Wit for ClevelandAlways well present in the aisles of the Salon du Dessin, North American museums rarely miss an opportunity to enrich their collections: quickly reserved on the beautiful stand of the Dutch…
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Three new Eugène Boudins for GivernyA precursor of Impressionism, close to Jongkind and Monet, Eugène Boudin entered the Musée des Impressionnismes in 2020. Acquired from the Galerie de la Présidence, his panel Deauville, le bassin…
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Boston buys the Saint Cecilia by Diana Di RosaIn our review of the last Maastricht Fair, we wrote that a painting presented by the Porcini gallery, Saint Cecilia with an Angel, had been acquired by an American museum. We can now give its…
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A witness to Marie-Antoinette’s taste enters the LouvreThe highly mechanical precision of certain revolutionary inventories sometimes leaves considerable room for the imagination, and thus - until recently - we had to be content with dreaming when…
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A terracotta by Vinache donated to the National Gallery of Art in WashingtonLargely forgotten nowadays, Jean Joseph Vinache was nevertheless one of the fine sculptors of eighteenth-century France, even though he first made his career in Saxony, where his most famous work…
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A portrait of Lessing by Hübner for CincinnatiThe Cincinnati Art Museum is adding to its rich collection of nineteenth-century European paintings a portrait of the German painter Karl Friedrich Lessing by his fellow painter Rudolf Julius…
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Two George Minne for ChicagoIt was undoubtedly one of the most striking sheets on offer at the last Salon du Dessin: on the stand of the young gallery owner Ambroise Duchemin sat a large drawing by George Minne, which was…
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The Musée Fragonard acquires two MalletThe subject of these two compositions is almost identical: in both cases, a young woman - one in white, the other nude - prepares to receive a man - one standing, dashing and undoubtedly…
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Orsay acquires its first Fernand PelezJean-Léon Gérôme’s tondo was not the only work to attract the attention of the Musée d’Orsay on the stand of Gallery 19C at the last Tefaf in Maastricht. The Musée d’Orsay also acquired Fernand Pelez’s…
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Tate Britain’s rehang and acquisitions (1/2)The new museum-wide presentation of works at Tate Britain clearly has a thoughtful subtext in which colonial issues, gender and everything else that constitutes the alpha and omega of today’s…
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Two panels by Adriaen Brouwer reunited at the MauritshuisAdriaen Brouwer remains one of the most colourful figures of 17th-century Flemish painting, famous for the debauchery that led to his premature death: it is probably no coincidence that a range…
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News from BayeuxLe Parisien informed us in an article dated 11 July that Nicole Paolini, a resident of Bayeux who died in March at the age of 86 and had no children, had bequeathed assets worth an estimated 2…
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Leuven acquires a painting by Michaelina WautierShe was a 17th-century painter whose works were often attributed to her brother, Charles Wautier, or to other male artists such as Jacob van Oost the Elder. However, Michaelina Wautier gained…
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A new drawing by Émile Schuffenecker for Pont-AvenIt was one of a number of museum acquisitions that punctuated the second part of the sale of the Talabardon & Gautier gallery collection organised by Ader on 23 March, a session that was…
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Acquisitions and fundraising for the Bibliothèque nationale de FranceThe Notre-Dame missal, sold by Christie’s on 5 July, has finally been preempted by the Bibliothèque nationale de France for 56,700 euros (including costs). We can only be delighted to see this…
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Two paintings by Bouguereau restored at Saint-Vincent-de-PaulThis is about the only cause for satisfaction in Paris, but it is real: the restoration of the churches is progressing and we are even late in describing all the operations that have already been…
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A new Samuel van Hoogstraten for DordrechtPerspectiefstuk: it is difficult to translate into English the Dutch word for this splendid perspective view painted by Samuel van Hoogstraten, which we had already noticed last year when the…
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A mythological portrait by Jean Nocret for VersaillesThe painting was due to be auctioned by Koller in Zurich on 22 September 2022 but was bought in. It was finally purchased by private treaty earlier this year by the Château de Versailles. It is a…
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A painting by Fleury Richard acquired by BordeauxI was even more displeased than compassionate to see him in Ferrara in such a pitiful state, outliving himself, unaware of both himself and his works, which, without his knowledge, and…
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