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Christofle: a brilliant historyAt last! Long awaited and hoped for over several decades, such a rich Christofle exhibition can only please lovers of jewellery - and objets d’art in general - but its real success lies in the way…
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A rhinoceros in AmsterdamAs every year, there were many museum curators browsing the aisles of the TEFAF, which closes its doors today ; several works have thus joined the public collections, including a Rhinoceros,…
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The Burlington Magazine - n°1464 vol CLXVII - March 2025European decorative arts at the Met Editorial A Frick renaissance Articles Jeffrey Schrader, Cristoforo de Predis at the Sforza Court Peter Humfrey, Paul Joannides, A portrait of an…
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Research announcement: Publication on the architects of the Fourvière basilicaWith a view to publishing a monographic study of Pierre-Marie Bossan (1814-1888) and Louis-Jean Sainte-Marie Perrin (1835-1917), architects of the Fourvière Basilica, with the Presses…
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A painting by Frère Luc purchased by AmiensClaude François, dit Frère Luc, n’est certes pas le plus grand peintre français du XVIIe siècle, mais ses œuvres sont souvent de très grande qualité. Les découvertes le concernant sont nombreuses et nous…
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A chandelier by Viollet-le-Duc acquired by PhiladelphiaAlors que la Tefaf Maastricht 2025 s’apprêtait à ouvrir, la galerie Oscar Graf annonçait l’acquisition par le Philadelphia Museum of Art du grand chandelier néo-gothique d’Eugène Emmanuel…
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The "Renaissance of the Louvre" threatens the LouvreLaurence des Cars, inside the Louvre, only talks to her close collaborators. Many people in the museum complain that she does not say hello to anyone, keeping her head stubbornly fixed towards…
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A drawing by Jan Verkade for Pont-AvenWhile Gad Frederik Clement’s large pastel had been able to hold the interest of the Breton museum during its exhibition at TEFAF in 2024, the beautiful catalogue that Agnews Brussels devoted…
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Fundraising for the future Musée SérusierUn nouveau musée ouvrira ses portes le 21 juin prochain , au cœur du Finistère, dans la petite ville de Châteauneuf-du-Faou. Il mettra en valeur le nabi « à la barbe rutilante», Paul Sérusier, ainsi…
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Tefaf 2025, an excellent vintageThe 2025 edition of Tefaf in Maastricht has just opened, until 20 March, and as usual the quality is there. In our opinion, this edition is even richer than last year, and undoubtedly the most…
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Three glassworks by Félix Bracquemond preempted by the Petit PalaisAmong the recent acquisitions announced by the Petit Palais at the beginning of the year, three glassworks by Félix Bracquemond have joined its collections. Already on display on the ground floor…
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A painting by Pierre Puget enters the LouvreC’était incontestablement l’un des plus beaux tableaux anciens présentés à FAB Paris en novembre dernier et il était présenté sur le stand de Bayser, plutôt consacré aux dessins ancien en dépit de leur…
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A Courbet for the Musée de la ChasseIt took its place in the Cabinet du Loup on the first floor of the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature at the beginning of March: Hunting Scene in the Snow is the first work by Courbet to join the…
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The new graphic arts cabinet of the Musée des Arts DécoratifsThe wealth of the collections of the Museum of Decorative Arts in the field of graphic arts, particularly ornamental drawings and wallpaper, was well known but was not at all showcased, preserved…
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The degrowth of museumsLes musées représentent-ils un danger pour la planète ? La question, évidemment, n’a pas été formulée en ces termes lors de la journée professionnelle d’ICOM France qui s’est déroulée à Reims en septembre…
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Two drawings identified and acquired by OrléansWhen none of an artist’s drawings have been identified, it is difficult, if not impossible, to attribute a sheet to him, unless one knows the painting he is preparing. Thus, a work in ink and…
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A rare painting by Gaudier-Brzeska for OrléansOne of the very few known paintings by the sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brezska, The Madonna, has joined the artist’s reference collection held by the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Orléans. It was acquired from…
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An Annunciation by Overbeck soon to be on sale at TajanLe 27 mars prochain, la maison de vente Tajan proposera aux enchères une Annonciation de Friedrich Overbeck, sans doute le peintre le plus emblématique de la peinture nazaréenne allemande, considéré…
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A portrait by Drölling purchased by the LouvrePlus connu pour ses peintures d’histoire, rattaché au néoclassicisme, Michel-Martin Drölling fut aussi un portraitiste de talent, ce que rappelle avec éclat une récente acquisition du Musée du Louvre.…
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A masterpiece by Maria van Oosterwyck enters the RijksmuseumSometimes you have to be patient, even in museums, and wait for the right painting to emerge instead of falling back on works considered less representative or less successful: this is what the…
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Palm trees on the Place de la ConcordeQuand les bornes sont franchies, il n’y a plus de limites. La mairie de Paris, déjà friande des dictons à la façon de Pierre Dac ou d’Alphonse Allais (elle veut mettre les villes à la campagne, en…
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A pastel by Gad Frederik Clement acquired for the Pont-Aven MuseumGad Frederik Clement is certainly not the best known of Gauguin’s followers, especially in France where no institution has been able to exhibit his works until now. Thanks to the valiant Musée de…
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A book on painting in Parisian churches in the 19th centuryAuthor: collective. The churches of Paris are incredibly rich, but often little known. With the exception of a few, mainly in the centre of Paris such as Saint-Sulpice or…
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A fundraising campaign to restore Ronceray AbbeyLegend has it that brambles entwined the foot of a statue of the Virgin found in 1527 in the crypt of the Abbey of Our Lady of Charity, which was henceforth called Ronceray Abbey. Founded in…
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Copenhagen is enriched by a painting by Clara PeetersOne reads - sometimes - very admirable notices even in the sales catalogues and that that Koller had devoted to the Still Life with a Peregrine Falcon by Clara Peeters sold in Zurich on 20…
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Pierre Puget 1620-1694Four volumes, 1744 pages, no less than 8.5 kilos! Obviously, you can’t reduce an art book to figures, but these are so impressive that they deserve to be mentioned here. The work published by…
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A new miniature by Nicholas Hilliard for the V&AAs every year, the publication of the Arts Council England report on works acquired by British museums through the Acceptance in Lieu or the Cultural Gifts Scheme reveals several acquisitions…
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Belgian storiesBrussels urban planning in the second half of the 20th century was so violent that a term was coined to describe the damage it caused: "Bruxellisation", or the destruction of a city in peacetime.…
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The sad fate of the Brooklyn MuseumOur book, which is due to be published next Wednesday, is devoted to the current drift of certain museums and could not cover all the establishments concerned, of which there are unfortunately…
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Eternal Spring. Gardens and Tapestries in the RenaissanceWho still remembers Cardinal Antoine de Granvelle? His memory is still alive in Besançon, where the Musée du Temps occupies the former family palace and where the Musée des Beaux-Arts et…
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Two new museum directorsA few months after Claude Miglietti’s retirement, Amélie Lavin has been appointed to succeed him as head of the Musée Cantini, Marseille’s modern art museum, part of the City’s Museums division…
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Print Quarterly Volume XLII - Number 1 - March 2025Contents Adam Perzyński, Engravings for Polish Equestrians: Tomasz Makowski’s Illustrations for Hippica (1603) Jalen Chang, ‘Bengalee Work’ before Aquatint: Thomas Daniell’s Views of Calcutta…
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An exhibition on Gros and Girodet in MontargisNous n’avons vu cette exposition que samedi dernier. Elle est presque passée inaperçue faute d’une communication suffisante, et cela est vraiment dommage car le sujet est passionnant même si son…
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The Tavitian donation at the Clark Art Institute (4)After the Dutch paintings from the beginning of the 17th century, we continue our exploration of the bequest of Aso Tavitian to the Clark Institute, still with Northern paintings, but this time…
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Sage comme un image. Childhood in the eye of the artist 1790-1850The exhibition currently on display at the Musée de Tessé in Le Mans, before moving on to the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Bordeaux, is very successful in the choice of works shown and in its…
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Print Quarterly Volume XLI - Number 4 - December 2024Contents Rachel A. Young, Andrea Andreani’s Abduction of the Sabine Women after Giambologna Dorinda Evans, Jean Pierre Bouch, A Rediscovered Polymath Natalia Lauricella, Printing Colour…
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A portrait of Sarburgh for LuxembourgTo be mayor, it is better to enjoy a certain - moral - credit with your constituents. At least that is what the portrait of Sebastian Spörlin, mayor of Basel, suggests, as he poses with his…
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A Bourbonnais Virgin at the MetIt is an elegant and meditative statue, whose features betray its Bourbonnais origin, recently demonstrated with talent by Maryan W. Ainsworth in The Burlington Magazine: a Virgin of the…
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L’invité de La Tribune de l’Art n° 26 : Adrien Goetz pour son livre «Mes musées en liberté»Pour cette nouvelle émission de L’invité de La Tribune de l’Art, nous recevions Adrien Goetz venu nous parler de son livre «Mes musées en liberté», paru chez Grasset. Si nous nous sommes rejoint sur…
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A portrait by Goya for HuescaA portrait by Goya has recently joined the public collections of the city of Huesca. It has thus returned to the building for which it was painted, as the museum is housed in the former…
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Orsay buys a painting by Anna BochAdmirée à Ostende puis à Pont-Aven, à l’occasion de l’exposition «Anna Boch, un voyage impressionniste», Cueillette ornait déjà la couverture d’une première rétrospective organisée il y a vingt-cinq ans au…
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A painting by Henry de Groux for MarseilleIl refusa de voir ses oeuvres exposées à côté de « l’exécrable Pot de soleils de Monsieur Vincent, ou de tout autre agent provocateur ». Henry Groux fut donc absent du Salon des XX en 1890 où Van Gogh…
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Donation of the Horvitz collection to ChicagoL’information n’est pas une complète surprise car la rumeur courait depuis quelque temps. L’Art Institute of Chicago vient de le confirmer : la collection Horvitz, soit quelques 2000 dessins, 200…
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A Gobelins tapestry for the GettyAprès avoir langui près de sept décennies en réserve, la belle tapisserie des Gobelins réapparue chez Christie’s à Paris à l’automne 2022 avait à première vue tout ce qu’il faut pour exciter l’intérêt des…
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Around sixty works by Edvard Munch bequeathed to HarvardThe Harvard Art Museums have just announced that sixty-four new works by Edvard Munch have joined their collections thanks to the bequest of Philip A. and Lynn G. Straus, who were among their…
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Stained glass windows of Notre-Dame: a few additional thoughtsDe l’avis des juristes que nous avons consultés, le recours devant le tribunal administratif de l’association Sites & Monuments contre le marché passé par l’Établissement public chargé de la…
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Restorations to the Bertrand de Chateauroux MuseumOne of the most loyal of the loyal, Henri Gatien Bertrand followed Napoleon into exile, first to the island of Elba, then to Saint Helena. The role of this general of the Empire and Grand Maréchal…
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A new sculpture for ValladolidAlthough its creator remains anonymous, the quality of this statue is undeniable. Carved in wood during the first half of the 18-th century, it represents Saint Joseph with the infant Jesus.…
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Zurbarán. Reinventing a masterpieceL’exposition Zurbarán du Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon et celle qui se tient au même moment sur Guido Reni à Orléans relèvent d’un genre médian entre l’exposition-dossier et la rétrospective. Avec la…
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