Exhibitions

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  • Amber Treasures from the Baltic Sea 16th - 18th century

    The material gleams and glows, seduces and fascinates: rarer on the banks of the Seine than on those of the Baltic Sea, amber certainly deserved this exhibition as beautiful as it is learned,…

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  • Noël Coypel, painter of grand decors

    «Noël Coypel, peintre de grands décors», Château et Grand Trianon de Versailles, du 26 septembre 2023 au 28 janvier 2024. «Noël Coypel (1628-1707), peintre du Roi», Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, du…

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  • The Treasury of Notre-Dame cathedral

    Contrary to what you might read here or there (and even in some of the texts of the remarkable catalogue accompanying the Louvre exhibition), the treasury of Notre-Dame cathedral was not saved…

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  • A ter Brugghen exhibition in Modena

    Ter Brugghen à la Galleria Estense, en Émilie, non loin de Bologne, soit sur les terres des Carracci et de leurs élèves plutôt que sur celles des Caravagesques : une telle exposition peut surprendre…

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  • Fantastic animals

    Could we have been lied to? The mummified dragon’s head on display in a curiosity cabinet looks an awful lot like a crocodile’s (ill. 1). It may come from the Musée du Doudou, but it’s sure to fool…

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  • Amedeo Modigliani. A painter and his dealer

    There’s nothing like a famous name to get the season off to a flying start: following on from a fine display presented last year, the exhibition has everything it takes to seduce visitors, despite…

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  • Louis Janmot. The Poem of the Soul

    Louis Janmot was born on 21 May 1814. According to the rules laid down by the Ministry of Culture, he therefore belongs to the Musée du Louvre. Fortunately, the Musée d’Orsay, to which all artists…

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  • Treasures of the Kingdom of Lotharingia, Charlemagne’s legacy

    Inaugurated in summer 2021 with the hero Ulysses, the Hôtel Départemental des Expositions (HDE Var) in Draguignan in the Var département, in the south of France, has quickly established itself as a…

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  • In the studio of the Lemoine & Chaudet sisters

    « Je déclare vivre de mon art » Dans l’atelier des sœurs Lemoine & Chaudet Grasse, Musée Jean-Honoré Fragonard, from 10 June to 8 October 2023 Lovers of early painting will certainly remember…

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  • An exhibition on art nouveau jewelry

    As usual, L’École des Arts Joailliers takes a serious approach to a subject that some would quickly find futile, and has wisely entrusted Rossella Froissart - Director of Studies at the École…

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  • Marquet in Normandy

    Il y avait eu cette dernière décennie Pissarro, Boudin puis Dufy, le Musée André Malraux poursuit avec Marquet son cycle d’expositions consacrées aux peintres qui ont entretenu un lien particulier avec…

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  • Ingres. The artist and his princes

    We were thrilled with the visit. Reading the remarkable catalogue completes our conviction: this Ingres exhibition at the Château de Chantilly is a great success. It presents the five paintings…

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  • Pierre Alexandre Morlon, art in the service of the Republic

    Taking an interest in artists of local origin is one of the missions of French provincial museums, and we can only congratulate those who do so. Those born in Paris are often much less fortunate…

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  • Jacobus Vrel. Forerunner of Vermeer

    The biography of Jacobus Vrel, to whom the Fondation Custodia is devoting a remarkable retrospective, is a quick one to write: we know almost nothing about the artist, apart from his works (only…

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  • Sarah Bernhardt. And the woman created the star

    "I’m not sure that Madame Sarah Bernhardt, at the point she’s at, is still able to find the right intonation to say "Good morning Sir, how are you?" She needs the extraordinary to be herself" The…

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  • An exhibition on the Alps as a frontier

    It was 2012: the plans-reliefs were the subject of a high-profile and very expensive exhibition at the Grand Palais. At the time we wrote an article: "Musée des Plans-Reliefs: an exhibition. After…

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  • Promenades on paper

    There’s nothing like a summer on the banks of the Loire to restore your strength after a harsh American winter, even if you might prefer "Promenades on Paper" to "Promenades de papier", especially…

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  • Saint Francis of Assisi

    Devoting an exhibition to an iconographic theme is a good thing, because our contemporaries are often ignorant of both the religious history and the mythology on which our civilisation is based.…

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  • Gli spagnoli a Napoli. Il Rinascimento meridionale

    We only saw the exhibition a few days ago, and it closes this Sunday. We had heard great things about it, which is why we didn’t want to miss it, and the advice we received was excellent, as the…

  • Juan de Pareja, Afro-Hispanic Painter

    Fifty three years after the Metropolitan Museum acquired Diego Velázquez’ Portrait of Juan de Pareja at Christie’s in November 1970 for a record price of £2,310,000 ($5,544,000), the museum has…