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Musée Cognacq-Jay: hanging of pastels and recent acquisition
The Musée Cognacq-Jay is currently presenting its collection of pastels, some fifteen in all. While there is no special reason for this display, it does allow us to see works that are too fragile…
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Research announcement: Jean-Baptiste Paulin Guérin (1783-1855)
As a second-year student on the Creation, Diffusion and Heritage master’s programme at Sorbonne University, under the supervision of Barthélémy Jobert, I am writing a monographic dissertation on the…
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Research announcement: In the backstages of France’s latest coronation
In spring 2025, the Mobilier national will present an exhibition at the Galerie des Gobelins (Paris), dedicated to the coronation of Charles X, to mark the bicentenary of this last French…
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Research announcement: "Peau d’Art" project
Dear Sir/Madam, On behalf of the International Society of Iconodiagnostics (ISIS), I ask for the help of curators from all museums. ISIS is a learned society dedicated to advancing the field of…
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Two new Ransons join the Musée de Pont-Aven
At last year’s TEFAF in Maastricht, we had of course noticed the fascinating pastel by Paul Ranson offered by dealer Jean-François Heim, and it was therefore with great pleasure that we learned of…
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New threats to the Place de la Concorde
The Anne Hidalgo-style transformation of the Place de la Concorde is underway! In other words, the continuation of the regular massacre to which this fully listed square is subjected by Paris…
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Two major Impressionist acquisitions for Liverpool
In addition to a very fine drawing by Rembrandt (see the news item of 18/1/24), the publication of Arts Council England’s annual report on works acquired by British museums through the Acceptance…
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Madam Minister for Culture, don’t let yourself be fooled by Vianney d’Alançon
In an article posted online yesterday on the Figaro website, the director of the Rocher Mistral theme park (whose co-shareholders are the Dassault, Michelin and Montagne families) made a…
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The Musée Jeanne d’Aboville restores its collections
The restored painting returned to the collections of the Musée Jeanne d’Aboville in La Fère last December, but not for long, as it will be loaned to the Musée de Besançon next spring. Its restoration…
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A new Rembrandt for the British Museum
Every year, Arts Council England’s rich report on works acquired by British museums through the Acceptance in Lieu (AIL) Scheme or the Cultural Gifts Scheme (CGS) - the UK equivalent of our…
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Notre-Dame: archaeological digs sacrificed to meet deadlines
Has the Établissement public in charge of Notre-Dame, under pressure to meet the deadlines imposed by the French President, who wants the monument to reopen on 8 December 2024, vandalised precious…
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Versalia. Revue de la Société des Amis de Versailles - Sommaire du n°27 - 2024
Sommaire Laurent Salomé et la conservation, Enrichissement des collections de l’année 2022 Vincent Bastien, Mesdames de France et les marchands Darnault à Paris pendant la Révolution : la…
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Alexandre-Jean Dubois-Drahonet. A rediscovered talent
Alexandre Dubois-Drahonet has already been the subject of several articles in La Tribune de l’Art, notably on the occasion of gallery exhibitions and museum acquisitions. We hoped that one day he…
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A watercolour by Gustave Doré for the Musée Paul-Dupuy
Going against the grain, Gustave Doré painted grandiose landscapes inherited from Romanticism at a time when Realism and Impressionism had established themselves on the artistic scene. The…
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Annonce de chercheur : Cartes postales représentant des faits divers entre 1883 et 1914
Étudiante en seconde année de master de recherche à la Sorbonne, je réalise des recherches sur la carte postale, et plus particulièrement sur les représentations de faits divers (accidents,…
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Gustave Moreau. The Middle Ages rediscovered
C’est un Moyen Âge syncrétique, souvent fantasmé mais avant tout ornemental que de dévoile la passionnante exposition du Musée Gustave Moreau, qui organise avec une régularité de métronome…
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A painting by Giulia Lama acquired for Venice
From June to October, it was one of ten recent acquisitions exhibited in one of the recently restored and reopened Palladian rooms of the Gallerie dell’Accademia in Venice, where the major…
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A new Boucher for Besançon
All eyes were on the Franche-Comté region at the auction organised by Audap & Associés at Hôtel Drouot on 13 December: its star lot, a seductive Chinese painting by François Boucher sold for…
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Rachida Dati appointed Minister of Culture
As with all appointments of a new Minister of Culture (we’ve had twelve since La Tribune de l’Art was created, in April 2003, less than twenty-one years ago), we will welcome - albeit with much…
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The deputy mayor of Paris confuses the Alexandre III bridge with the Concorde, and the Concorde with a fairground
The Place de la Concorde, considered by architectural historians to be one of the most beautiful squares in the world, has been mistreated for years, as we have regularly denounced here since…
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The Burlington Magazine - n° 1450 vol CLXVI - January 2024
The Golden Age of Avignon Editorial The Walpole Society Articles Alexandra Gajewski, Introduction Claudia Bolgia, Avignon as ’nova Roma’ Francesca Manzari et Jason Stoessel, Two music…
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Dijon acquires a marble by Jean Dampt
As it prepares an exhibition of the work of Jean Dampt, to be curated by Naïs Lefrançois and held in autumn 2025, the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon has been able to purchase one of his sculptures…
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A first work by Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale for Orsay
As we have pointed out on several occasions, the Musée d’Orsay’s collection of British art, which is still limited, is a major focus of its acquisitions policy. It was joined only recently by a new…
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Successful reopening of the Draguignan museum
Some museums are no longer fulfilling their mission (see several recent articles). It is fortunate, however, that others are doing exactly the opposite, and that some towns are realising the…
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A Peruzzi for Belfast
There are Christmas tales that last a whole year: in December 2022, we thus learned that a superb painting by Baldassare Peruzzi had been assigned to the Ulster Museum in Belfast after being…
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Forms of ruin
The exhibition at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyon devoted to the theme of ruins goes far beyond the chronological and geographical limits of La Tribune de l’Art, showing many works from Antiquity,…
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Holbein and the Renaissance in the North
He has a receding chin, a trumpet nose and a glassy eye, yet this young man has everything to please because "he does not suffer from want" is what it says on his medallion, and that’s what you…
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A painting by Bloemaert for the National Gallery
In 2023, the National Gallery in London acquired its very first painting by Abraham Bloemaert. The work had been on long-term loan to the museum for several years, and was finally purchased…
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Prints from the Petit Palais, from Dürer to Toulouse-Lautrec
Five years after The Art of the Pastel from Degas to Redon, the Petit Palais is unveiling a new section of its exceptional graphic arts collection, with two hundred carefully selected from its…
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Collectors and dealers of Asian art in France (1750-1930)
As its many visitors discovered over the autumn and winter, this exhibition in Dijon is a complete success, hailed as it should be by the public and critics alike, and one that we can only…
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At Versailles, the irregularity is getting worse
We won’t go back over Catherine Pégard’s illegitimacy as president of the Versailles public establishment. She has long since exceeded all the age and term limits laid down by law. The Ministry of…
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Fire at Château du Grand-Serquigny: another preventable tragedy
The fire that partly destroyed the Château du Grand-Serquigny in the Eure region (France) on Saturday was a tragedy. But once again, it is a tragedy that could have been avoided: all the…
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A Donatello for the Bargello
It is very rare to find works by Donatello in private hands. In Italy, a Madonna and Child declared to be of "national cultural importance" in 2011 could not leave the country. Put up for sale by…
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Musée Gadagne: a summary...
In four articles, we have covered the entire Musée Gadagne. And the results are distressing. On the day of our visit, we were able to meet Xavier de la Selle, the museum’s curatorial director. In…
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Gadagne: a visit to a Lyon museum with no collections on display (4)
The fourth part of the permanent tour of the Musée Gadagne has just opened, and for us and many others it was an opportunity to discover the entire new layout. And right from the first room, a…
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The Getty buys a portrait by Anton Raphaël Mengs
The Getty Museum recently acquired a portrait painted by Anton Raphaël Mengs, the first painting by this artist to enter the museum, which until now had only held a drawing and a pastel. It was a…
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Gadagne: a visit to a Lyon museum with no collections on display (3)
One might have thought we’d hit rock bottom with the first two sections of the permanent tour of the Musée Gadagne, which no longer feels like a museum at all. But paradoxically, the higher you go,…
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Gadagne: a visit to a Lyon museum with no collections on display (2)
After the first level, here is the second part of the Musée Gadagne tour, one floor higher. This one is entitled: "Dipping its feet in the water". Remember that this is a museum, not an amusement…
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News from the Château de Compiègne (2): the reopening of the Musée de l’Impératrice
The Musée de l’Impératrice in Compiègne, which has been closed for many years, reopened its doors in 2022 and its museography has been redesigned. We didn’t know about it before it closed, but the…
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Gadagne: a visit to a Lyon museum with no collections on display (1)
The Hôtel Gadagne, Lyon’s history museum, has been the talk of the town since it was completely redeveloped. The controversy centres on the way in which part of the exhibition revisits the city’s…
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Musée de la Marine in Paris: fluctuat et mergitur
Two accessories seem to be essential for visiting the Musée de la Marine in Paris, as the new scenography aims to "encourage total immersion in the sea": flippers and snorkels. But that’s not all.…
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Imminent destruction of Marie Curie’s Pavillon des Sources
At a recent meeting of the Paris City Council, Emmanuel Grégoire dared to make the following statement about the Pavillon des Sources threatened with imminent destruction: "Marie Curie never…
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A Neapolitan Baroque sketch for Beauvais
he Musée départemental de l’Oise has recently revived a policy it largely followed a few decades ago. Under the impetus of Louvre curators such as Arnauld Brejon de Lavergnée and Jacques Foucart, the…
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Dieric Bouts, Creator of Images
Transhistorical: this is the only word the organisers of this rich exhibition have on their lips to describe the event, promising a host of radical confrontations designed to "broaden horizons",…
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The Académie des Beaux-Arts opposes the replacement of Notre-Dame’s stained glass windows
Yesterday, Wednesday 20 December, the Académie des Beaux-Arts published a press release without ambiguity on the project to replace Viollet-le-Duc’s stained glass windows in Notre-Dame. While it…
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A Gerard David for the Getty
In 2023, the Getty Museum acquired a Holy Family by Gerard David, purchased directly from a private collector. The painting had previously been sold twice at Christie’s, first in 2003 - its…
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A new Tiffany stained glass window for the Metropolitan Museum
A new monumental stained glass window has been added to the Metropolitan Museum’s reference collection of pieces produced by Tiffany Studios. From the collection of Alan Gerry, it was purchased…
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100,000 !
100,000. 100,000 people have already signed, in exactly ten days, the petition we launched on 10 December at 2.30pm against the replacement of Viollet-le-Duc’s stained glass windows in Notre-Dame.…
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A painting by Nicolas Loir and Jean I Cotelle for Vaux-le-Vicomte
With the support of its Friends association, the Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte wanted to acquire a Gobelins tapestry for which it had launched a fundraising campaign. The tapestry was eventually…
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Bulletin de la Société de l’Histoire de l’Art français - Sommaire année 2016
Sommaire Muriel Barbier, Quand Diane et Hercule côtoyaient la Vierge. L’exceptionnel décor d’une maison canoniale Renaissance provenant de Rouen Oriane Lavit, Horace Le Blanc (vers 1575-1637), de…