Paris, Musée du Louvre
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A masterpiece by Victor Hugo enters the LouvreIt is a majestic, mythical and major sheet - accumulation is possible here - that has recently joined the French collections after more than three years of suspense leading to fears that it would…
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A Portuguese Renaissance painting for the LouvreA year ago, the Louvre organised a small but magnificent exhibition devoted to the Portuguese Renaissance. We explained that many works had been lost in the Lisbon earthquake of 1755, and that…
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The Louvre preempts three tapestriesThere is the charming detail of the squirting water in the centre of the composition: Diana splashes Actaeon to repel him. This reaction is well and truly specified by Ovid. The author of the…
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Clouets for the Louvre and ChantillyThe portraits of two brothers by François Clouet recently joined the public collections, acquired by the Musée du Louvre and the Musée Condé in Chantilly on the same day in June: one represents the…
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A painting by Raden Saleh returns to the LouvreWe have just learned from France Info that a painting long-term loaned by the Louvre to Saint-Amand-Montrond is to be restored and returned to Paris for good. It is a rare canvas - the only one…
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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 drawing by André Lebrun for the LouvreWe noticed the drawing in an article dedicated to gallery exhibitions last spring. This was also the case for the Louvre’s Department of Graphic Arts, which bought this large sheet by André Lebrun…
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The Louvre preempts the sculpture by AnguierIt would have been appalling if this admirable terracotta had not found its way into French public collections. Fortunately, François Anguier’s model for the funerary monument of Jacques de Souvré…
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Louvre: paper catalogue also available to download free of chargePublishing books on the internet - we did this recently thanks to Thierry Zimmer who entrusted us with his catalogue raisonné on the nineteenth-century painter Antoine Rivoulon (which you can…
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A painting by Jacques Stella given to the LouvreJacques Stella depicted the Saint Family on several occasions, varying the number of figures from one version to another. One of his paintings, intended for private devotion, features Mary, Jesus…
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