La Tribune de l'Art

A gouache by Filiger for the Musée d'Orsay

Alexandre Lafore — 2026-08-20T17:43:15Z

It is indeed an essential work by a singular artist that has just enriched France's public collections, even though one would initially have imagined it at the Musée de Pont-Aven. Charles Filiger's small gouache on cardboard was naturally the star lot of the sale organised by Thierry-Lannon et Associés on 18 July in Brest, where it fetched €165,000 hammer price — €207,900 including fees — for the benefit of the Musée d'Orsay. Executed at Le Pouldu, this landscape

- News Items / Charles Filiger (1863-1928), Paris, Musée d'Orsay, Acquisitions

A Monfreid painting for Orsay

Julie Demarle — 2026-08-01T16:54:30Z

We had admired it among the gallery of effigies gathered in the final section of the memorable George Daniel de Monfreid retrospective at the Musée Hyacinthe Rigaud in Perpignan (see the article). On loan from a private collection, the Portrait of Victor Segalen depicted one of the artist's close friends, a naval doctor and writer, and a key intermediary between him and Gauguin. The painting is now part of the Musée d'Orsay's collections, having been acquired from Dominique Lelong, a descendant of the sitter. Although several works by the painter are already preserved there — a fine selection of portraits and still lifes, as well as a landscape — none appears to be currently on display, and several

- News Items / George-Daniel de Monfreid (1856-1929), Paris, Musée d'Orsay, Acquisitions

Jeanne Selmersheim-Desgrange at the Musée d'Orsay

Alexandre Lafore — 2026-07-12T15:21:24Z

The very recent arrival of Red Scorpionfish and Lemons on the walls of the Paris museum is a significant event in itself. As Jean-Rémi Touzet has written, it is the very first Neo-Impressionist still life to enter the French national collections and the first work by Jeanne Selmersheim-Desgrange to join the institution whose first director was her granddaughter, Françoise Cachin. Above all, it is an appealing composition (ill. 1), with its brilliant colours, that has joined a Neo-Impressionist gallery dominated by the second man in the painter's life: Signac. One must,

- News Items / Jeanne Selmersheim-Desgrange (1877-1958), Paris, Musée d'Orsay, Acquisitions, Giverny, Musée des Impressionnismes, formerly American art

Fans: a donation to the Musée d'Orsay

Bénédicte Bonnet Saint-Georges — 2026-07-06T14:15:39Z

Brasser de l'air n'est appréciable qu'en deux circonstances : lorsqu'il fait chaud et lorsque l'accessoire est beau. En cette année 2026, le Musée d'Orsay célèbre ses quarante et n'est pas opposé aux cadeaux : à cette occasion, il a reçu en donation quelque dix-sept év

- News Items / Camille Pissarro (1830-1903), Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), Jacques-Emile Blanche (1861-1942), Georges de Feure (1868-1943), Paris, Musée d'Orsay, Acquisitions

Two chairs by Mucha for Orsay

Alexandre Lafore — 2026-07-02T10:48:52Z

Reconstituée dans les salles du Musée Carnavalet, la boutique du joaillier Georges Fouquet est l'un des plus beaux décors Art nouveau parisiens, entièrement né de la fertile imagination d'Alfons Mucha. Tous les visiteurs apprécient depuis 1989 cet espace dans lequel on peut déambuler mais ont peut-être oublié que cette boutique connut une existence éphémère puisqu'elle fut inaugurée rue Royale en 1901 et démontée dès 1923.

- News Items / Alfons Mucha (1860-1939), Paris, Musée Carnavalet, Paris, Musée d'Orsay, Acquisitions

Why all the secrecy surrounding Gustave Courbet's The Desperate Man?

Didier Rykner — 2026-05-26T17:35:39Z

On 15 October 2025, more than seven months ago, we asked the Musée d'Orsay to provide us with, or allow us to consult, the agreement it had concluded with the Qatar museums, regarding the loan by the latter to the Musée d'Orsay of The Desperate Man by Gustave Courbet, acquired without obtaining an export certificate. We described this genuine heritage scandal in two articles, here and there.

- Museums / Affaire du Désespéré de Gustave Courbet, Gustave Courbet (1819-1877), Paris, Musée d'Orsay

Renoir, Matisse, and the temptation of spectacle

Bénédicte Bonnet Saint-Georges — 2026-05-25T20:45:05Z

Will the museum be visited like the cinema? Sadly, yes, nowadays. In search of novelty, visitors and spectators ask the same question: what are the releases of the week, what are the exhibitions of the season? To choose, one needs an appealing poster, a catchy title and, of course, stars, Tom Cruise or Pierre Niney, Auguste Renoir, Henri Matisse... The museum is no longer anything more than a place for temporary exhibitions, and the temporary exhibition a cultural product among others, subject to the same demands of visibility, communication and audience numbers, even profitability. Is it not supposed, however, to stem from scholarly research, to enrich knowledge about a famous artist, to shed light on a lesser-known master?

- Exhibitions / Henri Matisse (1869-1954), Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), Paris, Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais

A large Dalpayrat planter acquired by the Musée d'Orsay

Julie Demarle — 2026-05-20T21:32:00Z

We had briefly mentioned it in the article devoted to the regrettable absence of preemptions that had arisen during the sale of an important group of glazed stoneware offered by the Thierry de Maigret auction house at the Hôtel Drouot on 4 June last. A large Dalpayrat planter (ill. 1 and 2), together with a large jewellery casket by Henri-Auguste Fourdinois, recently and expensively acquired, justified, according to the Musée d'Orsay, its inaction in the face of the works then dispersed by Jean-Marie Pointu

- News Items / Paris, Musée d'Orsay, Acquisitions, Adrien Dalpayrat (1844-1910)

A new watercolour by Marie-Désiré Bourgoin acquired by the Musée d'Orsay

Julie Demarle — 2026-04-15T19:52:31Z

In a vast high-ceilinged room, whose every piece of furniture is laden with objects, plants, mail or studies, is depicted an elderly woman entirely dressed in black, seated, in profile, in an armchair, facing a bed made up like an altar, covered and edged with honorary objects, an Academician's sword and a grand cross sash of the Legion of Honour, a painter's palette, portraits and branches of boxwood or olive. Emerging from these effigies, a well-known canvas, presented on an easel

- News Items / Paris, Musée d'Orsay, Acquisitions, Marie-Désiré Bourgoin (1839-1912)

Further details on works from French museums in Abu Dhabi

Didier Rykner — 2026-03-16T22:25:00Z

The list of works belonging to French museums and currently at the Louvre Abu Dhabi is evidently classified as top secret. Four days ago, in fact, an AFP dispatch explained that “none of the French institutions contacted by AFP, including the Louvre, Versailles, Beaubourg or Orsay, wishes to indicate which paintings or sculptures are on loan to Abu Dhabi”. Move along, there is nothing to see. Or rather there is: come to the Louvre Abu Dhabi where all these works are displayed, despite the risks posed to them by Iranian

- Museums / Louvre Abu Dhabi, Théodore Chassériau (1819-1856), Théodore Gudin (1802-1880), Gilles Guérin (1611/1612-1678), Versailles, Musée et domaine national du château, Paris, Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Musée du Louvre, Félix Philippoteaux (1815-1884), Eugène Fromentin (1820-1876), Jean-François Millet (1814-1875), Eugène Boudin (1824-1898), Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), Gustave Courbet (1819-1877), Gustave Moreau (1826-1898), Alfred Gilbert (1854-1934), Louis Welden Hawkins (1849-1910), Ferdinand Hodler (1853-1918), Camille Pissarro (1830-1903), Paul Sérusier (1864-1927), Heritage: threats, denaturation, vandalism and destruction