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A new Antigna pour OrléansThese are blessed times for collectors and museums who are not afraid to think outside the box. While some exceptional works are selling for prices that are no less exceptional, and while a few…
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The Louvre buys a drawing by Jacques BellangeThis is certainly one of the most beautiful sheets by Jacques Bellange to reappear on the market in recent years, and we mentioned it in article on the Christie’s sale on 20 March 2024. The Musée…
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A drawing by Laurent Guyot for the Mobilier nationalThis sheet by Laurent Guyot, which took pride of place at the centre of the Madrid gallery owner José de la Mano’s stand at the opening of the last Salon du Dessin, could not fail to interest the…
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A terracotta by Pierino da Vinci for ClevelandIn February, a complex and fascinating sculpture joined the rich collections of the Ohio Museum, which was able to acquire it from Stuart Lochhead thanks to funding from the Leonard C. Hanna Jr.…
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A painting by Alonso Cano acquired for CórdobaBent over or standing, with his arms tied behind his back or on his stomach, surrounded by his executioners or alone, Christ at the column is a subject that allows artists to depict a naked body,…
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A new watercolour by Eugène Lami for the Musée CondéOn 22 March this year, the Château de Chantilly, which is now very active in terms of acquisitions because it knows how to find sponsors to replace the budgets it lacks, preempted a watercolour by…
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Death of Dominique PonnauDominique Ponnau, conservateur général du Patrimoine et directeur de l’École du Louvre de 1982 à 2002, s’est éteint le 7 avril 2024. Beaucoup, notamment parmi ses anciens élèves, se souviendront de son…
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Fontainebleau gets an Isabey drawingC’est à la fois un très beau dessin et un formidable document historique ainsi qu’une aquarelle célèbre chez les amateurs d’arts décoratifs puisqu’elle témoigne d’un ameublement perdu : les équipes…
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A painting by Charles Valfort acquired by the Musée de la Vie romantiqueUne fascinante représentation d’atelier d’artiste rejoint les collections du Musée de la Vie romantique. Acquise auprès de la galerie Michel Descours à Paris, elle est due à Charles Valfort, peintre et…
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Rennes seeks sponsors to restore a tapestry cartonAs Fate would have it, some of the tapestries from the Parlement de Bretagne that were not destroyed in the fire of 1994 disappeared in 1997 in a fire in the restoration workshop where they had…
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An unpublished sanguine by Bandinelli acquired by the GettyIt was one of the most important sheets on offer at last year’s Salon du Dessin (see article), where it took pride of place on the stand of Jean-Luc Baroni & Marty de Cambiaire, who will…
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A Zoffany for EnglandL’acteur Robert Baddeley incarna le rôle stéréotypé du Juif usurier dans la pièce de Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal ou L’Ecole de la médisance. Présentée en 1777 au théâtre royal de…
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A first Félix Del Marle for RoubaixIt will be presented as part of the thematic exhibition "Les enfants de la Piscine" (Children of La Piscine) that the Roubaix museum is preparing to unveil in parallel with the exhibition…
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The Groninger Museum buys a painting by Herman ColleniusIt’s the second shot that catches the eye: behind the allegory of Time, embodied by a magnificent old man with his scythe and hourglass, appears one of the oldest representations of the city of…
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Two acquisitions for the Musée BonnardIt’s not really a portrait. When he painted little Isabelle Lecomte du Noüy in Le Cannet in 1929, Pierre Bonnard captured all the charm of childhood under his brush (ill. 1). The little girl is…
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Quimper adds to its 20th-century collectionThey are part of the section devoted to Max Jacob in the exhibition Fragments surréalistes, René Iché et les poètes currently on show at the Musée des beaux-arts de Quimper, a variant of the…
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Christophe Leribault leaves Orsay for VersaillesAlthough we knew a few days ago that Catherine Pégard’s succession had - at last - been settled, with the as yet unannounced appointment of Christophe Leribault as President of the Etablissement…
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17th-century embroidered masterpiece being acquired by AmiensThere are sometimes - often - acquisition projects that La Tribune de l’Art can only endorse, and invite its esteemed readers to do likewise: the exceptional antependium embroidered at the end of…
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Fundraising launched to restore Saint-Louis de VincennesOf course, you have to push open the door. From the street, its silhouette is austere, clad in millstone and red brick, but inside, the Saint-Louis de Vincennes church reveals admirable…
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Four sketches by Joseph Blanc donated to Rennes by his society of friendsYesterday, the Société des amis du Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes (Friends of the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes) made a particularly relevant acquisition at Rennes Enchères, for the reasonable sum of…
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A sculpture by Gustave Doré for Orsay"It was not the least of the Salon’s astonishments to find G. Doré authoritatively marking his place among the sculptors with a large and highly poetic group: La Parque et l’Amour The public is…
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Bronze for the Musée de VizilleSince June 30, 2023, the Musée de la Révolution Française has been presenting a highly interesting exhibition entitled French Revolution Style. Furniture, works of art and wallpaper. Among the most…
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An absolute masterpiece of French decorative art enters the Musée d’OrsayWe admired it at Sotheby’s New York and hoped that the Musée d’Orsay would be able to acquire it, without really believing it because of its estimate. However, the Musée Orsay won the wonderful cup…
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A Bonzanigo and a Cartellier for the Château de MalmaisonThe effigy is recognisable at first glance, despite the overloaded decor of military trophies paying homage to the new master of Italy, even though Napoleon has not yet emerged from Bonaparte:…
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Two exceptional pedestals by André-Charles Boulle return to VersaillesThey were placed in the Salon de l’Abondance in the heart of the Grands Appartements du Roi at Versailles. The two exceptional pedestals by André-Charles Boulle had joined the Versailles…
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The Met exhibits its English drawingsLe Metropolitan Museum, à gauche en haut de son escalier principal, dispose d’un large espace, qui conduit notamment vers la peinture française du XIXe siècle, où il expose des œuvres d’art…
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Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen. The centenary exhibitionThere’s still time to go and see the exhibition that the Musée de Montmartre is devoting to Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen to mark the centenary of his death. Born in Lausanne in 1859, the painter…
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