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A tapestry by Gerhard Munthe acquired by OrsayPurchased from the Oscar Graf gallery, a large tapestry by the Norwegian Gerhard Munthe joins the collections of the Musée d’Orsay, which is continuing its active policy of acquiring Scandinavian…
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Hélène Duret to succeed Bruno GaudichonOne of France’s most endearing and unique museums is about to undergo a change of leadership with the announced departure of Bruno Gaudichon for a well-deserved retirement: as revealed by La Voix…
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A Manfredi for the GettyIt’s a happy company, at least at first sight. A group of men are drinking wine around an improvised table that looks like an ancient Roman altar, while listening to one of them play the lute.…
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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An unpublished drawing by Goltzius enters the Fondation CustodiaAlors que va ouvrir dans deux jours une exposition consacrée aux douze années d’acquisitions faites par le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 new painting by Rémond for MontpellierThe Musée Fabre kept the immense historical landscape from the Salon of 1837 - along with its preparatory sketch acquired in 2016 - as well as a picturesque medium-format Italian landscape, but…
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The Mauritshuis buys a painting by Balthasar van der AstIn the 1620s and 1630s, a tulip epidemic swept through the northern part of the United Provinces, driving up prices beyond measure and leading to the "tulip crisis" in 1637. Among the most…
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Two new women artists for WashingtonLike Luisa Roldán, known as La Roldana, Lavinia Fontana, Gretchen Woodman Rogers and Gesina ter Borch, two new 17th-century Italian painters, Fede Galizia and Caterina Angela Pierozzi, have…
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A 45th painting by Ingres for MontaubanThe Talabardon & Gautier sales, so rich in museum acquisitions that we can hardly exhaust the subjects they give us the opportunity to deal with, have also enabled the Musée Ingres in…
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Musée d’Orsay buys a pastel by DevambezA jack-of-all-trades, both popular and academic, André Devambez has been brought out of oblivion thanks to the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Rennes and the Petit Palais in Paris, which have devoted an…
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Claudius Popelin back at the Musée des Arts décoratifsLargely unknown nowadays but very famous in his time, Claudius Popelin had all the makings of a Renaissance humanist scholar lost in the 19th century: both a theorist and a practitioner, a…
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Several works by Charles Cottet acquired by Brestt is the sea that leads, at sunset, this long cortege of black mantises, like a procession of widows, towards the distant bell tower where Low Mass sounds; It is for the sea, no doubt, that all…
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Two paintings by Jules Boilly preempted by MontpellierThey represent the Fountain of the Three Graces on the Place de la Comédie and the Fountain of Cybele on the Place Chabanau in Montpellier, two new paintings by Jules Boilly enter the collections…
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A painting by Millet bought by CherbourgAlthough Jean-François Millet was above all a painter of peasants, he tried his hand at the great genre of history during his formative years: having left Cherbourg for Paris, he entered the École…
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A Portrait of a Capitoul by Jean Chalette for the Musée du Grand Siècleetween 1295 and 1787, the municipality of Toulouse, directed by the Capitouls (equivalent to the échevins and consuls) elected annually, enriched a large book of the city which included, among…
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Fundraising campaign from Langres for a sketch by DoyenVery active in the field of acquisitions as our series of recently published articles demonstrates, the Langres museums deserve to be encouraged. This is the first reason why the subscription…
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Two rare Victor Hugo panels preempted by the Maison de Victor HugoWe presented them at the end of our anthology of the Talabardon & Gautier sales that SVV Ader was preparing to organise on 21 and 23 March, the two unusual ink washes on fir boards by Victor…
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A petition to save the jardin de l’ArchevêchéThe disappearance of Paris, which we denounced in our book published last year, far from slowing down, is accelerating, as if the ever-stronger opposition of its inhabitants made the municipality…
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A painting by Molenaer acquired by the Frans Hals MuseumSeated nonchalantly by a fireplace, a young boy stares at the viewer in an unassuming manner, with a pipe in his left hand and a mug in his right, and seems to be inviting him to join him. This…
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Jean-Pierre Samoyault’s reaction to the purchase of Winterhalter’s copyIn the email received from Marie-Christine Labourdette justifying the preemption by the Château de Fontainebleau of a copy of Franz Xaver Winterhalter’s painting: The Empress Eugenie Surrounded by…
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Two new paintings for the Musée Napoleon I in FontainebleauDecidedly better inspired when it comes to illustrating the First Empire than to evoke court life with copies, the Château de Fontainebleau could hardly have missed such a vivid sketch by Robert…
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The Art Nouveau Madeleine Lavatory finally restoredGood news is so rare for the Parisian heritage that it must be mentioned, even if this one would not have been necessary in any other context, because the monument would not have been so long in…
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A sketch attributed to Jean-Baptiste Deshays acquired by LangresAs we stated in the recent news items on the pair of paintings from Joseph Vernet’s studio and the drawing by Pierre-Alexandre Wille acquired by the Maison des Lumières Denis Diderot, the latter…
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Bonham’s and Christie’s auctions in ParisAlexander the Great faced without trembling the elephant army of Porus, rajah of the Pauravas kingdom. The battle took place on the banks of the Hydaspe in 326 BC. The Macedonian king was…
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Orléans: two donations and a purchase on the occasion of the Jean Bardin exhibitionLike the Musée Fabre, the Musée des Beaux-Arts d’Orléans is so active in terms of acquisitions that we find it difficult to keep up with its news. And as we have written many times before, museums…