Didier Rykner

Articles

  • Friends of the Louvre banned from entering the Louvre

    We never would have thought we would see this one day, and even during Jean-Luc Martinez’s tenure, we hadn’t seen it.. But everything happens, and from now on Friends of the Louvre are no longer…

  • A Bernini in Jouy-en-Josas?

    L’historien de l’art italien Maichol Clemente, spécialiste de la sculpture à Venise aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècle, vient de donner une interview au Giornale dell’Arte, journal auquel il contribue par…

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  • Some old master paintings and drawings for sale in London

    Generally speaking, we only write about works offered for sale that we were able to see in person, and not just from photographs. Exceptionally, we will be writing here about the London sales without…

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  • L’invité de La Tribune de l’Art n°21 : Véronique Milande

    Cette semaine nous recevons la responsable de la Conservation des Objets d’Art Religieux et Civils de la Ville de Paris, Véronique Milande, qui nous parlera de son parcours, du rôle de ce service…

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  • A pastel by Marie-Gabrielle Capet preempted by Orléans

    In perfect condition, of very high quality and, what is more, the work of a woman artist, the presumed portrait of Sophie Thuillier by Marie-Gabrielle Capet, which went up for sale last Friday at the…

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  • The Musée Fabre buys a painting in Virginia

    Alexandre-Eugène Castelnau was a little-known painter from Montpellier who was a cousin of the more famous Frédéric Bazille. The Musée Fabre owns a number of his works, including beautifully executed…

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  • About Germany at the Louvre and its acquisitions policy

    The recent acquisition by the Louvre’s Department of Paintings of a German picture seen at Tefaf in Maastricht on the stand of the American gallery 19C is a mystery that we have been unable to…

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