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Le Pays Lorrain - 120e année, vol 104 - Mars 2023Sommaire Vincent Hadot, La corne d’appel de Viviers près de Metz, mystérieux vestige de la lorraine médiévale Pierre-Hippolyte Penet, Une vue du château de Malzéville par Jean-Baptiste Claudot…
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Acquisitions: news from the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes (2)Our previous news item about the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Rennes (which dealt with restorations and the launch of the online collections database) was published in March. We should have published…
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Seventy-five Sèvres pieces donated in lieu of taxes to VersaillesAccustomed to proceeding in small steps, according to the opportunities offered by the art market and the goodwill of collectors, the teams at Versailles have learnt to be patient when it comes…
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Some online art history journals (1)As we’ve often written, online art-history journals - we’re talking here about journals publishing in-depth articles, not art-history and heritage information websites - are numerous, but complex…
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The Frans Hals Museum buys a painting by Cornelis Van HaarlemThis kitchen scene is an exception in the work of Cornelis van Haarlem. Along with Karel Van Mander and Hendrick Goltzius, he was one of the leading figures of Haarlem Mannerism, producing mainly…
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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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Fundraising to restore the Bulliot VirginThe hoped-for sum has almost been raised! Last June, a fundraising campaign was launched to finance the restoration of the so-called the Bulliot Virgin, a Gothic masterpiece from the Musée d’Autun…
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Esplanade des Invalides and Champ-de-Mars: a case study in misinformationSacking Paris, as foreign tourists visiting the French capital can see, is not the only activity of Paris City Council. It also has a passion for denying the facts, even though these can be…
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A Liotard for ChicagoNoticed at the last TEFAF, where it was exhibited on the stand of the London gallery Lowell Libson & Jonny Yarker, this portrait by Jean-Étienne Liotard has finally joined the collections of…
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The Studio of Alphonse de Neuville by Marie-Désiré Bourgoin acquired by OrsayAlthough Marie-Désiré Bourgoin is a little known artist, the fame of Sarah Bernhardt, to whom the Musée du Petit Palais devoted an exhibition that has just ended, helped to make some of his works…
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An exhibition on art nouveau jewelryAs 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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Apollon finally returns to VersaillesIn many respects, some of the jewels in the national collections are like survivors, having outlived both natural disasters and the upheavals of history, not to mention the harmful consequences…
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Back to L’Aquila (6). Duomo restoration work finally beginsIn 1703, the L’Aquila earthquake almost completely destroyed the cathedral, which was rebuilt by the Roman architect Sebastiano Cipriani from 1711 onwards, only to be reopened in 1780, the…
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A new Géricault for the Metropolitan MuseumThanks to a gift from Christopher Forbes, this major American museum has just acquired a new painting by Théodore Géricault. The small-scale work is not an easy subject, since it depicts General…
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A painting by Aimée Brune-Pagès for the Musée de PicardieVisitors to the Amiens institution, as well as readers of La Tribune de l’Art, know how proud this museum can be of its dense 19th-century collections, where the greatest names cohabit…
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A painting by Stanzione donated to WashingtonPaintings that do not depict slaves or that are not painted by women can enter the National Gallery in Washington, but this is now quite rare. Fortunately, there are still donors who are not…
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Back to L’Aquila (5). The rediscovered frescoes of Santa Maria della MisericordiaThe destruction caused by earthquakes can sometimes be offset by the rediscovery of works that had remained hidden for centuries. This is the case in L’Aquila, notably in a small church that is…
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Death of General Jean-Louis GeorgelinThe information comes from the newspaper L’Opinion and was tweeted less than an hour ago, and we have been able to confirm it. General Jean-Louis Georgelin, who had been appointed to head the…
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Back to L’Aquila (4). An exhibition about the Maestro di Campo di GioveAs part of the tour of the Museo Nationale d’Abruzzo, from 26 May until 3 September there is a very interesting focused exhibition accompanying the recent acquisition of four panels depicting…
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Back to L’Aquila (3). Il Museo Nazionale d’AbruzzoSince its creation in 1951, the National Museum of Abruzzo has been housed in the Forte Spagnolo of L’Aquila, built in the 16th century. This impressive fortress, designed by the architect Pere…
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Back to L’Aquila (2). The church of Santa Maria del SuffragioAs was the case on a much larger scale in Sicily after the devastating earthquake of 1693, the 1703 seism in L’Aquila in Abruzzo was also the occasion for the construction of religious buildings…
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Marquet in NormandyIl 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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A 17th-century chess set donated to the Grünes GewölbeSome birthday presents are more amusing than others: all visitors to the 2022 edition of Tefaf Maastricht (see article) will remember this marvellous ebony and ivory chessboard that seemed to…
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A painting by Rochegrosse acquired by the Petit PalaisIt is difficult to know whether this Japanese from Workshop is really Sarah Bernhardt. The painting is by Georges Rochegrosse, who represented the actress on several occasions. It was bought by…
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Cross in the light of the Var, "the most beautiful country in the world"His name is a sparkling invitation, and yet the beach at Baigne-cul remains deserted, barely animated by three boys, or rather by a single one, depicted three times under a blazing sun. The…
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A French artist’s decor at Sant’Andrea al QuirinaleThe church of Sant’Andrea al Quirinale, one of Bernini’s architectural masterpieces, is certainly one of the best known in Rome. But in this city of inexhaustible heritage, even the most famous…
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Hubert-Sauzeau, an exhibition in Niort, Deux-Sèvres departmentHe had benefited in 2017 and again in 2019 from two discreet focused exhibitions organised by the Musée Bernard d’Agesci in Niort at the initiative of its director, Laurence Lamy, who had been…
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Back to L’Aquila (1), twelve years laterIn July 2011, just over two years after the earthquake that struck the Abruzzo town of L’Aquila, we visited the restoration work underway. At the time, the city was partly off-limits, and the…
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A Letourneur sculpture donated to CherbourgFlesh that you cut, old chap, it’s a disturbing thing, you love it and you’re afraid of it, it vibrates so much. But it’s very difficult to work, it’s as hard as a donkey and the tools only go…
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A painting by Pietro Ricchi for VeniceA painting acquired by the Gallerie dell’Accademia in Venice brings to mind an artist who is difficult to pin down: Pietro Ricchi, nicknamed "il Lucchese". The work, bought on 16 November 2022 at…
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A drawing by Jacob de Wit for ClevelandAlways well present in the aisles of the Salon du Dessin, North American museums rarely miss an opportunity to enrich their collections: quickly reserved on the beautiful stand of the Dutch…
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Ingres. The artist and his princesWe 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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Three new Eugène Boudins for GivernyA precursor of Impressionism, close to Jongkind and Monet, Eugène Boudin entered the Musée des Impressionnismes in 2020. Acquired from the Galerie de la Présidence, his panel Deauville, le bassin…
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Boston buys the Saint Cecilia by Diana Di RosaIn our review of the last Maastricht Fair, we wrote that a painting presented by the Porcini gallery, Saint Cecilia with an Angel, had been acquired by an American museum. We can now give its…
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Interview with Xavier Bray, Director of the Wallace CollectionXavier Bray has been Director of the Wallace Collection since 2016. We caught up with him in London to talk about his seven years at the helm of one of England’s most prestigious museums - which,…
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A witness to Marie-Antoinette’s taste enters the LouvreThe highly mechanical precision of certain revolutionary inventories sometimes leaves considerable room for the imagination, and thus - until recently - we had to be content with dreaming when…
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A terracotta by Vinache donated to the National Gallery of Art in WashingtonLargely forgotten nowadays, Jean Joseph Vinache was nevertheless one of the fine sculptors of eighteenth-century France, even though he first made his career in Saxony, where his most famous work…
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Pierre Alexandre Morlon, art in the service of the RepublicTaking 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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Just published: books received from 1st April to 26 July 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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Jacobus Vrel. Forerunner of VermeerThe 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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A portrait of Lessing by Hübner for CincinnatiThe Cincinnati Art Museum is adding to its rich collection of nineteenth-century European paintings a portrait of the German painter Karl Friedrich Lessing by his fellow painter Rudolf Julius…
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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 frontierIt 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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The rebirth of the Museo di Capodimonte e Real BoscoUne allée en face du Museo di Capodimonte surnommée l’allée aux seringues, de la prostitution infantile, le cadavre d’un jeune homme drogué découvert dans un bosquet, des pelouses en mauvais état, un…
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Two George Minne for ChicagoIt was undoubtedly one of the most striking sheets on offer at the last Salon du Dessin: on the stand of the young gallery owner Ambroise Duchemin sat a large drawing by George Minne, which was…
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Promenades on paperThere’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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The Musée Fragonard acquires two MalletThe subject of these two compositions is almost identical: in both cases, a young woman - one in white, the other nude - prepares to receive a man - one standing, dashing and undoubtedly…
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Tate Britain: Burlington Magazine’s opinionAfter writing our first news item about Tate Britain’s rehanging and acquisitions, we received the July issue of Burlington Magazine, whose editorial is devoted to precisely this subject. Those…
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Orsay acquires its first Fernand PelezJean-Léon Gérôme’s tondo was not the only work to attract the attention of the Musée d’Orsay on the stand of Gallery 19C at the last Tefaf in Maastricht. The Musée d’Orsay also acquired Fernand Pelez’s…
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Sculptures from the rood screen at Notre-Dame: obstruction from the body responsible for archaeological digsWe know that the salvage excavations at the transept crossing of Notre-Dame have found, as might be expected, some of the sculptures from the 13th-century rood screen destroyed in the 18th…