Two Hubert Robert paintings from Madame Geoffrin offered by the Friends of the Louvre

23/4/26 - Acquisitions - Paris, Musée du Louvre - These are two remarkable paintings for which many had more or less openly hoped for a museum destiny: fortune proved favourable and these two masterpieces (ill. 1) were preempted at their sale at Christie’s in Paris on 25 March. Eighteenth-century snapshots, we wrote in anticipation of this Veil-Picard dispersal destined to make history (see the news item of 23/3/26), they fetched €1,950,000 hammer (i.e. €2,439,000 including fees) and benefit from the patronage of the Société des Amis du Louvre, which is offering them to the museum. Still in their original condition, they will certainly be magnificent after future restoration, we also wrote last month, as was the Guilty Pulcinella (see the news item of 22/1/25) already acquired at…