Fontainebleau, Musée national du château
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More Sèvres for FontainebleauFortunately, the showcases at Fontainebleau are not only filled with busts of the Napoleonides, judiciously acquired with metronome-like regularity, but also with an increasing number of imperial…
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A new small bust by Biennais for FontainebleauS’il faudra bien sûr du temps pour réunir les membres de la famille impériale au sein des collections publiques françaises, l’achat récent du petit buste de Napoléon provenant de la célèbre série de…
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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 drawing by Jean-Baptiste Oudry for the Château de FontainebleauThe third day of the Festival de l’histoire de l’art was brightened by some excellent news: just as the event was drawing to a close, the Château de Fontainebleau sent an emissary to the sale…
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Restoration of the Porte Dorée at the Château de FontainebleauWhat remains of the original decoration? The 16th-century frescoes that adorn the Porte Dorée of the Château de Fontainebleau are in a sorry state, victims of the passage of time, climatic…
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Muriel Barbier on her way to FontainebleauFor the first time, a specialist in the history of the decorative arts has been named "directeur du patrimoine et des collections" ("director of heritage and collections") at "the house of…
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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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An incomprehensible preemption of the Château de FontainebleauFontainebleau has been spared the fashion for forgeries until now, but it has now taken a dive. The château today preempted a recent copy, dating from 1968, of Franz-Xaver Winterhalter’s painting…
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Fontainebleau restores the cartoons of Oudry’s Royal Hunts"You will never be anything but a painter of dogs", Nicolas de Largillière is said to have laughingly predicted to Jean-Baptiste Oudry, admiring his pupil’s gift for rendering the animal "with such…
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