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The Regency in Paris (1715-1723). The dawn of the EnlightenmentOne Christmas evening at Versailles, the Duc d’Orléans appeared to be absorbed in reading a book that the congregation mistook for a prayer book; the chambermaid of the Duchesse d’Orléans later…
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La Tribune de l’Art launches a petition to save Notre-Dame’s stained glass windowsLa Tribune de l’Art generally prefers to support petitions rather than launch them itself. But the announcement by the President of the Republic that he was going to replace some of…
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The new heroes. Paul Richer and the sculpture of workWe reported extensively on our pages that, after years of torpor, the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Chartres narrowly escaped permanent closure in 2017. What would happen next remained unclear. The…
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Notre-Dame: Musée de l’Œuvre on track, Viollet-le-Duc’s stained glass windows under threatThe President of the French Republic today visited the Notre-Dame construction site, one year to the day before it is due to reopen to the public on 8 December 2024. The framework is almost…
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Journey into crystalA key material in medieval treasures, rock crystal has its rightful place at the Musée de Cluny, where this rich exhibition is displayed as comfortably as possible under the centuries-old vaults…
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Several sculpture sales at Paris in DecemberSculpture lovers are in for a treat this November, with no fewer than three sales featuring sculptures, particularly 19th-century bronzes. The first will take place tomorrow, Friday 8 December at…
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This Pichon was none other than an Ingres...Pierre-Auguste Pichon was a close pupil and collaborator of Ingres. An interesting religious painter, he painted decorations for the churches of Saint-Eustache, Saint-Séverin, Saint-Sulpice and…
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Jules et Léon VoirinCurrently studying for a Master 2 in Patrimoine, Art and History at the University of Lorraine (Nancy), I’m doing my research dissertation on the networks and artistic practices of the twin…
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Artibus et Historiae - An art anthologie - n°87, 2023Artibus et historiae, sous-titrée an art anthology, est une revue d’histoire de l’art publiée en Pologne par l’IRSA (Istituto per le Ricerche di Storia dell’Arte) et contenant des articles écrits…
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Les Cahiers d’Histoire de l’Art (sommaire du n°21 - 2023)Maria Teresa Caracciolo, Éditorial Études Lara Virginie Pitteloud, Articuler la figure de l’humble entre Rome et Haarlem au XVIIe siècle. Mise en perspective de quelques dessins méconnus…
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Grenoble gets a fine Dandré-BardonFièrement signé en bas à droite par l’artiste, ce tableau inédit de Michel-François Dandré-Bardon nous transporte du Salon de 1737 jusqu’aux tous premiers temps du christianisme grâce à sa composition…
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Statue unbolted and Art Deco destroyed - yesterday’s sad newsIf only there were a French Ministry of Culture responsible for heritage, that would be a good idea. Unfortunately, the joke is back in the news. Two events have just occurred, two events that we…
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A painting by Melchior de la Mars for GandThe works of Melchior de la Mars combine the influence of Caravaggio with late Mannerism. Almost nothing is known about this Flemish painter, except that he was active in Ghent around 1620,…
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Pierre Subleyras 1699-1749"Which French painter, apart perhaps Nicolas Poussin, was like him the greatest painter of Rome?" Thus ends the long essay that precedes Nicolas Lesur’s catalogue raisonné of Pierre Subleyras, just…
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A new Monet for OrsayAcquise par dation, une nouvelle toile de Claude Monet rejoint la collection de référence d’œuvres de l’artiste conservée par le musée d’Orsay. Restée en mains privées depuis son départ de l’atelier de…
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A drawing by La Fosse for LilleA late painting by Charles de La Fosse, The Handing over of the Keys to Saint Peter is kept at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Lille. It was recently joined by a preparatory drawing, which sold for…
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Stijn Alsteens appointed director of the Fondation CustodiaThe information was to remain confidential until midday so that the news could first be announced to the employees of the Fondation Custodia. But we learned of it yesterday through indiscretions,…
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A great Le Barbier for StockholmA harmonious combination of large format and seductive composition, The Triumph of Flora painted around 1777 by Jean-Jacques François Le Barbier the Elder was bound to interest a museum, and it…
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A work by the Master of the Corsi Crucifix for FlorenceThis Christ on the Cross took pride of place on dealer Fabrizio Moretti’s stand at the 2022 Florence International Biennial of Antiquities. The Florentine gallery owner, based in London, Monaco…
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Preemption of the Musée du Grand Siècle at the Artcurial saleMusée de beaux-arts, le futur Musée du Grand Siècle a également pour objectif de faire comprendre aux visiteurs tous les aspects de la vie au XVIIe siècle. Le tableau qu’il vient de préempter chez…
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Monumental 2023 - 1 : Le château de Fontainebleau et son domaineJean-François Hebert, Éditorial Caroline Piel, Notre-Dame de Paris, l’avancement des travaux Introductions Marie-Christine Labourdette, Faire renaître « la maison des siècles » Vincent Cochet,…
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Research announcement : Alfred Gouverneur (1884-1961)As curator emeritus, my research concerns Alfred Gouverneur (Saint-Denis, 1884- La Roche-sur-Yon, 1961). The author of a number of portrait charges (watercolour, gouache) painted during the First…
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Ruth and Booz by Charles Gleyre preempted by the Musée FabreLe Ruth et Booz de Charles Gleyre qu’a préempté le Musée Fabre à la vente Artcurial du 22 novembre est à la fois un chef-d’œuvre de cet artiste dont une rétrospective avait été présentée à Lausanne en…
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A Cassatt for the Fondation BembergThis young girl portrayed by Mary Cassatt in 1879 is inevitably reminiscent of the famous portrait of Berthe Morisot with a bouquet of violets, Édouard Manet’s masterpiece of 1872. Finally, the…
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A new Muse by Philippe Quantin preempted by DijonSet in a spare architectural décor, surrounded by a variety of musical instruments and draped in an ample red drapery, the muse Euterpe plays a long flute, as indicated by the inscription on the…
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Exhibition in Paris galleries: Talabardon & GautierIn our article at the beginning of the year announcing the Talabardon & Gautier sale at Hôtel Drouot, we expressed the hope that these would bounce back. It did not take long for this wish to…
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Exhibitions in Paris galleries: Bordes, Poncelin de Raucourt, Néouze"A woman with a fan is stronger than a man with a sword", as Anne-Françoise-Hippolyte Boutet, known as Mademoiselle Mars, liked to say. The famous actress was portrayed by the greatest artists,…
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Amber Treasures from the Baltic Sea 16th - 18th centuryThe 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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Exhibitions in Paris galleries: Nouvelle Athènes and ChaptalTwice a year, the Galerie La Nouvelle Athènes presents works mainly from the 19th century, and publishes a catalogue to mark the occasion. This year, November 2023, is no exception to tradition,…
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What will become of Louis XV’s commode?Curious onlookers, connoisseurs, experts and dealers flocked to the Saint-Germain-en-Laye auction house this morning, where - for less than three days - an exceptional piece of furniture finally…
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Exhibitions in Paris galleries: Moretti and Galerie CanessoThe plague, with its buboes and corpses, inspired miracles in saints and masterpieces in artists, as witnessed by Antonio Gherardi’s Saint Charles Borromeo Giving the Eucharist to the Pestiferous.…
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Second edition of Fine Arts and the Biennale, now FABBorn last year from the merger of Fine Arts Paris and the Biennale, the new FAB show is expanding for its second edition, before undergoing its ultimate expansion next year with its installation…
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First Millet painting acquired by the Van Gogh MuseumWhile the Van Gogh Museum already featured a painting by Jean-François Millet in its permanent collection, this Girl Carrying Water was on loan from the neighboring Rijksmuseum, and only one…
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The Burlington Magazine - n° 1447 vol CLXV - October 2023Artemisia in England: a royal discovery Editorial Croatia across borders Articles Niko Munz, Adelaide Izat, Artemisia Gentileschi’s ‘Susanna and the elders’ painted for Henrietta Maria…
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Print Quarterly Volume XL - Number 4 - December 2023Contents Angelika Marinovic, Agostino Veneziano’s Venetian Engravings of the 1520’s Thea Goldring, Beyond Siberia: Drawings by le Prince for the Histoire Générale des Vosges Paula Fayos-Perez,…
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Claude Gillot, a stillborn exhibitionThe Claude Gillot exhibition at the Louvre lasted less than three days. The exhibition has been unhooked, and lenders are already seeing the return of works they had theoretically loaned for…
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Helene Schjerfbeck enters the Metropolitan Museum and OrsayHitherto absent from American and French museum collections, the Finnish painter Helene Schjerfbeck has entered the Metropolitan Museum and the Musée d’Orsay at almost the same time. The New York…
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German Baroque drawings by Nicolas SchwedFrom now until December 7, Nicolas Schwed is presenting a museum-level exhibition of German Baroque drawings in the premises he shares with Étienne Bréton at 346, rue Saint-Honoré. And it’s likely…
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A dream Fragonard at ArtcurialArtcurial is offering another fine sale of paintings and sculptures (including a number of drawings) next week. One of the most talked-about paintings is sure to set bids alight, especially as it…
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Marie-Madeleine classified as a National TreasureHere is a work of immediate appeal, whose rarity and historical importance for medieval sculpture have often been hailed by specialists: proposed at Azur Enchères in Cannes on June 14th,…
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1000 historic weapons saved from destructionThe name of La Tribune de l’Art does not appear in the press release issued by the Musée de l’Armée announcing that a thousand historic weapons will enter the collections of French museums. However,…
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Just published: books received from 27 July to 16 November 2023We regularly put online the books we receive. The aim here is to report on their publication, possibly adding a brief description explaining what the book is about (or publishing the information…
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Orsay acquires a work by Georges de FeureSiegfried Bing played a leading role in the revival of the decorative arts. In 1895, he opened his shop "L’Art nouveau" in Paris, which gave its name to the famous artistic movement that…
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An exemplary indictment of Rocher MistralOn Tuesday 14 November, Rocher Mistral and Vianney d’Alençon appeared before the criminal court in Aix-en-Provence to answer for the countless breaches of the heritage, town planning and…
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A sumptuous "classic week" at Christie’s in ParisShould this be seen as a tribute to the famous Rothschild taste, to which the auction house strives to pay homage? Christie’s seems to have opted for accumulation, compiling up to seven (!) sales…
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Sculptures for sale at Sotheby’sNeptune and Juno emerge from the marble. These reliefs, attributed to the entourage of Jean Goujon and dated between 1550 and 1570, were part of a set depicting the four elements. Juno on her…
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Un discours prometteur du nouveau ministre de l’Education nationale, Gabriel AttalDans La Tribune de l’Art, nous avons trop peu l’occasion de dire du bien des ministres. Nous l’avions fait une fois au moins, récemment, à propos de la précédente ministre de la Culture, Roselyne…
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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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Two paintings by Jacques Dumont le Romain for VersaillesIf there will probably never be an exhibition devoted to Marie-Josèphe de Saxe (1731-1767), it’s not just because she never ascended the throne : the mother of the last three kings of France was…
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A report on Versailles by the French Court of AccountsThe Court of Accounts’ reports on public cultural institutions are always interesting reading and most of the time raise excellent questions. Their only limitation is, sometimes, a lack of…