London, National Gallery
Articles
-
King David joins two SibylsA year ago, a dossier exhibition of five paintings by Guercino was presented at Waddesdon Manor (see the news item of 19/10/24). Among them were three works with a complex history, linked by the…
Subscriber content -
Prison for the National GalleryThe window is a topos in painting to which the Fondation de l’Hermitage in Lausanne devoted an exhibition in 2013, spanning from the Renaissance to the present day, while the Metropolitan Museum in…
Subscriber content -
The National Gallery gains a Dutch still lifeAlso as part of its bicentenary celebrations, and as it unveiled its new display at the beginning of May, the National Gallery in London announced a new series of acquisitions, to which we will…
Subscriber content -
Waddesdon Manor celebrates GuercinoCoincidence or alignment of the planets? Some fates seem written in advance, and it is not impossible to imagine that Guercino’s now famous unpublished Moses, which turned up at a sale near the Hôtel…
Subscriber content -
The National Gallery acquires a painting by Alma-TademaThe National Gallery has given itself several gifts to celebrate its 200th anniversary in 2024. After Nicolas Poussin’s The Eucharist and Éva Gonzales’ Psyche, the museum has acquired its very first…
Subscriber content -
A new Poussin for London’s National GalleryOn the occasion of its bicentenary, the National Gallery in London announced last March that it had acquired Nicolas Poussin’s The Eucharist through the Acceptance in Lieu procedure, as part of the…
Subscriber content -
A painting by Eva Gonzales acquired by the National GalleryKept in a private collection for nearly seventy years, a painting by Eva Gonzalès, La Psyché (The Full-length Mirror), was bought by the National Gallery in London thanks to the support of its…
Subscriber content -
A painting by Bloemaert for the National GalleryIn 2023, the National Gallery in London acquired its very first painting by Abraham Bloemaert. The work had been on long-term loan to the museum for several years, and was finally purchased directly…
Subscriber content -
Saint Francis of AssisiDevoting 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. They…
Subscriber content -
The National Gallery of London buys its first PechsteinWhen a major museum buys a first painting by a great artist that has been missing from its collections until now, it can’t go wrong: the National Gallery has thus set its sights on the beautiful…
Sections
No sections
Events
No event