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  • Print Quarterly Volume XLI - Number 1 - March 2024

    Contents Femke Speelberg, Wenzel von olmütz in Ulm? Discoveries and New Hypotheses Regarding his Architectural Prints Alexis Culotta, Marcantonio Raimondi’s Naked Youth and its Sources…

  • An early Goya for the Museo del Romanticismo

    The work has not been allowed to leave Spanish territory since 2014, having been declared an Work of Cultural Interest (BIC). Originally attributed to Francisco Bayeu, this Pietà was attributed…

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  • The Rocher Mistral affair. False pretences and real issues

    On 13 February 2024, the Aix-en-Provence correctional court sentenced SAS Rocher Mistral (which had received over €6 million in public funding) and its chairman, Vianney-Marie Audemard d’Alançon,…

  • Announcement for researchers: JRC Bella Maniera Prize

    Dear colleagues, We are pleased to inform you of the launch of a brand new prize, entirely funded by a patron, aimed at supporting Bella Maniera’s missions by encouraging high-quality research…

  • Two paintings by Lurçat acquired by Quimper

    In addition to the mask by René Iché and the gouache by Max Jacob, two paintings by Jean Lurçat have recently been added to the 20th-century collection of the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Quimper.…

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  • Budget cancellations: a new blow to France’s heritage

    The Ministry of the Budget (obviously in collusion with the Élysée Palace) has just wiped €10 billion off France’s budget with the stroke of a pen, despite the fact that the budget was debated in…

  • A Soldani Benzi masterpiece for Detroit

    It was one of the most talked-about works at last year’s TEFAF in Maastricht, where this magnificent raw earth modello by the great Florentine sculptor Massimiliano Soldani Benzi took pride of…

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  • Fontainebleau gets an Isabey drawing

    C’est à la fois un très beau dessin et un formidable document historique ainsi qu’une aquarelle célèbre chez les amateurs d’arts décoratifs puisqu’elle témoigne d’un ameublement perdu : les équipes…

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  • Horace Vernet

    At the 1855 Universal Exhibition, which took the place of the Salon and where foreign schools came to confront the French school, the latter put four painters in the limelight, who benefited from…

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  • Drawings from Bruegel to Rubens in Flemish Collections

    The opportunity to admire such a fine collection of Flemish drawings is so rare that we can only regret having missed the opening in autumn 2023 of this exciting Antwerp exhibition, which has…

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  • Rennes seeks sponsors to restore a tapestry carton

    As Fate would have it, some of the tapestries from the Parlement de Bretagne that were not destroyed in the fire of 1994 disappeared in 1997 in a fire in the restoration workshop where they had…

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  • An unpublished sanguine by Bandinelli acquired by the Getty

    It was one of the most important sheets on offer at last year’s Salon du Dessin (see article), where it took pride of place on the stand of Jean-Luc Baroni & Marty de Cambiaire, who will…

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  • A Zoffany for England

    L’acteur Robert Baddeley incarna le rôle stéréotypé du Juif usurier dans la pièce de Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal ou L’Ecole de la médisance. Présentée en 1777 au théâtre royal de…

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  • Many judicial and financial problems for Rocher Mistral

    Rocher Mistral and Vianney d’Alançon have just been condemned, at first instance, by the Aix-en-Provence court for unauthorised work carried out at the Château de La Barben. It is interesting to…

  • A first Félix Del Marle for Roubaix

    It will be presented as part of the thematic exhibition "Les enfants de la Piscine" (Children of La Piscine) that the Roubaix museum is preparing to unveil in parallel with the exhibition…

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  • The Groninger Museum buys a painting by Herman Collenius

    It’s the second shot that catches the eye: behind the allegory of Time, embodied by a magnificent old man with his scythe and hourglass, appears one of the oldest representations of the city of…

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  • Prosper Mérimée

    A writer, of course, and one of the best of the French nineteenth century, of which there were many, but also a historian, art critic and many other things besides, Prosper Mérimée is a fascinating…

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  • Two acquisitions for the Musée Bonnard

    It’s not really a portrait. When he painted little Isabelle Lecomte du Noüy in Le Cannet in 1929, Pierre Bonnard captured all the charm of childhood under his brush (ill. 1). The little girl is…

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  • Quimper adds to its 20th-century collection

    They are part of the section devoted to Max Jacob in the exhibition Fragments surréalistes, René Iché et les poètes currently on show at the Musée des beaux-arts de Quimper, a variant of the…

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  • Comfort at the museum

    Visiter un musée ne doit pas devenir un parcours du combattant. Ils sont beaucoup trop nombreux à oublier cette composante essentielle pour la délectation artistique : le confort. Visiting a museum…

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  • Christophe Leribault leaves Orsay for Versailles

    Although we knew a few days ago that Catherine Pégard’s succession had - at last - been settled, with the as yet unannounced appointment of Christophe Leribault as President of the Etablissement…

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  • 17th-century embroidered masterpiece being acquired by Amiens

    There are sometimes - often - acquisition projects that La Tribune de l’Art can only endorse, and invite its esteemed readers to do likewise: the exceptional antependium embroidered at the end of…

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  • Fundraising launched to restore Saint-Louis de Vincennes

    Of course, you have to push open the door. From the street, its silhouette is austere, clad in millstone and red brick, but inside, the Saint-Louis de Vincennes church reveals admirable…

  • A sculpture by Gustave Doré for Orsay

    "It was not the least of the Salon’s astonishments to find G. Doré authoritatively marking his place among the sculptors with a large and highly poetic group: La Parque et l’Amour The public is…

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  • Bronze for the Musée de Vizille

    Since June 30, 2023, the Musée de la Révolution Française has been presenting a highly interesting exhibition entitled French Revolution Style. Furniture, works of art and wallpaper. Among the most…

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  • Rachida Dati’s hot heritage issues in Paris

    France’s new Minister of Culture didn’t get off to a great start when she approved the ’relocation-reconstruction’ of the Institut Curie’s Pavillon des Sources... But while the future of this Parisian…

  • A Bonzanigo and a Cartellier for the Château de Malmaison

    The effigy is recognisable at first glance, despite the overloaded decor of military trophies paying homage to the new master of Italy, even though Napoleon has not yet emerged from Bonaparte:…

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  • The Met exhibits its English drawings

    Le Metropolitan Museum, à gauche en haut de son escalier principal, dispose d’un large espace, qui conduit notamment vers la peinture française du XIXe siècle, où il expose des œuvres d’art…

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  • Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen. The centenary exhibition

    There’s still time to go and see the exhibition that the Musée de Montmartre is devoting to Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen to mark the centenary of his death. Born in Lausanne in 1859, the painter…

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  • Pavillon des Sources: the reassembly trick!

    As we like to give newcomers a chance, we’ll give Rachida Dati credit this time. She must sincerely believe that she has found the right solution to save Marie Curie’s Pavillon des Sources: move it…

  • New York auctions in early 2024

    The sales in New York at the end of January/beginning of February are very rich this year. The number of works for sale at Sotheby’s and Christie’s is colossal, and while not all are of optimum…

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  • BRAFA 2024 opens its doors

    The 69th edition of the Brussels art fair has just opened its doors to the public in a joyous atmosphere of surrealist celebration, with a highly successful décor inspired by the paintings of Paul…

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  • Research announcement : Louyse Moillon (1609? - 1696)

    After presenting the first ever exhibition devoted to Louyse Moillon (1609? - 1696) at the gallery in 2009, Galerie Eric Coatalem is currently preparing a catalogue raisonné of his works. We are…

  • A piece of furniture signed by Rodin preempted by Roubaix

    Its reappearance on the Paris art market last autumn caused quite a stir. Although known and documented, the large neo-Renaissance piece of furniture by Mathias Ginsbach and Auguste Rodin…

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  • A work by James Ensor acquired by Flanders

    In 2023, the twentieth anniversary of the Flemish Masterpieces Decree was celebrated: promulgated on January 24, 2003, the Topstukkendecreet’s mission is to protect Flemish movable cultural…

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