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A drawing by Anthelme-François Lagrenée for ChicagoVery impressive, this large drawing by Anthelme-François Lagrenée is well known to readers of La Tribune de l’Art where we have already reproduced it twice: at the time of its sale at the Hôtel…
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A Manfredi for the MetA single solemnity for two saints: Peter and Paul are celebrated on the same day, considered to be the two pillars of the Church, one the stone on which it is built, the other the apostle to the…
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A marble by Félicie de Fauveau for the Detroit Institute of ArtDecidedly fond of the works of the Romantic sculptor Félicie de Fauveau, the major American museums are pursuing an active policy of enrichment at a brisk pace, from which we sometimes miss…
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Interview with Mathilde Augé, Executive Director of WMF FranceThe World Monument Fund is an international organisation dedicated to safeguarding architecture and heritage. It had an affiliate office in France that took part in numerous restoration projects…
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Treasures of the Kingdom of Lotharingia, Charlemagne’s legacyInaugurated in summer 2021 with the hero Ulysses, the Hôtel Départemental des Expositions (HDE Var) in Draguignan in the Var département, in the south of France, has quickly established itself as a…
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A relief by François Du Quesnoy for BostonFrançois Du Quesnoy’s plump, chubby putti made his reputation, sometimes to the point of overshadowing the rest of his work, or tarnishing it with numerous replicas and copies that were widely…
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Print Quarterly Volume XL - Number 3 - September 2023Contents Cloe Cavero de Carondelet, A Copperplate of The Dominican Martyrs of Japan Reused by Murillo Vitalii Tkachuk, Averkiy Kozachkovskyi and Western Sources of Kyiv Prints, 1720s-40s…
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Péristyles - Cahier des Amis du Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nancy, n°61, juin 2023Éditorial - Paul Vert, Les messages de l’art Susanna Gallego Cuesta, Clair-Obscur, Faith XLVII Paul Vert, Clair-Obscur, un univers de contrastes Claudia Flaus, Le cynisme pour seul cap,…
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A new Marquet offered to Le HavrePromised to the Musée d’Art moderne André Malraux thanks to a donation subject to usufruct from Rogelio Martinez de Federico and Serge Sadry, Notre-Dame de Paris in the Snow by Albert Marquet is on…
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A major bequest for the Musée d’Art de NantesSome collectors are well known to museums, forge privileged relationships with them, and end up donating one work, sometimes several, or even an entire collection. This was not the case with…
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Some online art history journals (2)Here we continue our list of art history journals freely available on the Internet, pointing out an error when we updated the page that lists them all, because the old URL was no longer the…
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Revue de l’Art n°219/2023-1Éditorial Barthélémy Jobert, À propos d’une commode Notes et documents Bruno Amiot, Le commanditaire du Saint Maurice de Jean Hey Claire Dechamps, La Résurrection de Lazare d’Usson : enquête…
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Le Pays Lorrain - 120e année, vol 104 - Mars 2023Sommaire Vincent Hadot, La corne d’appel de Viviers près de Metz, mystérieux vestige de la lorraine médiévale Pierre-Hippolyte Penet, Une vue du château de Malzéville par Jean-Baptiste Claudot…
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Acquisitions: news from the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes (2)Our previous news item about the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Rennes (which dealt with restorations and the launch of the online collections database) was published in March. We should have published…
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Seventy-five Sèvres pieces donated in lieu of taxes to VersaillesAccustomed to proceeding in small steps, according to the opportunities offered by the art market and the goodwill of collectors, the teams at Versailles have learnt to be patient when it comes…
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Some online art history journals (1)As we’ve often written, online art-history journals - we’re talking here about journals publishing in-depth articles, not art-history and heritage information websites - are numerous, but complex…
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The Frans Hals Museum buys a painting by Cornelis Van HaarlemThis kitchen scene is an exception in the work of Cornelis van Haarlem. Along with Karel Van Mander and Hendrick Goltzius, he was one of the leading figures of Haarlem Mannerism, producing mainly…
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In the studio of the Lemoine & Chaudet sisters« Je déclare vivre de mon art » Dans l’atelier des sœurs Lemoine & Chaudet Grasse, Musée Jean-Honoré Fragonard, from 10 June to 8 October 2023 Lovers of early painting will certainly remember…
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Fundraising to restore the Bulliot VirginThe hoped-for sum has almost been raised! Last June, a fundraising campaign was launched to finance the restoration of the so-called the Bulliot Virgin, a Gothic masterpiece from the Musée d’Autun…
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Esplanade des Invalides and Champ-de-Mars: a case study in misinformationSacking Paris, as foreign tourists visiting the French capital can see, is not the only activity of Paris City Council. It also has a passion for denying the facts, even though these can be…
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A Liotard for ChicagoNoticed at the last TEFAF, where it was exhibited on the stand of the London gallery Lowell Libson & Jonny Yarker, this portrait by Jean-Étienne Liotard has finally joined the collections of…
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The Studio of Alphonse de Neuville by Marie-Désiré Bourgoin acquired by OrsayAlthough Marie-Désiré Bourgoin is a little known artist, the fame of Sarah Bernhardt, to whom the Musée du Petit Palais devoted an exhibition that has just ended, helped to make some of his works…
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An exhibition on art nouveau jewelryAs usual, L’École des Arts Joailliers takes a serious approach to a subject that some would quickly find futile, and has wisely entrusted Rossella Froissart - Director of Studies at the École…
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Apollon finally returns to VersaillesIn many respects, some of the jewels in the national collections are like survivors, having outlived both natural disasters and the upheavals of history, not to mention the harmful consequences…
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Back to L’Aquila (6). Duomo restoration work finally beginsIn 1703, the L’Aquila earthquake almost completely destroyed the cathedral, which was rebuilt by the Roman architect Sebastiano Cipriani from 1711 onwards, only to be reopened in 1780, the…
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A new Géricault for the Metropolitan MuseumThanks to a gift from Christopher Forbes, this major American museum has just acquired a new painting by Théodore Géricault. The small-scale work is not an easy subject, since it depicts General…
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A painting by Aimée Brune-Pagès for the Musée de PicardieVisitors to the Amiens institution, as well as readers of La Tribune de l’Art, know how proud this museum can be of its dense 19th-century collections, where the greatest names cohabit…
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A painting by Stanzione donated to WashingtonPaintings that do not depict slaves or that are not painted by women can enter the National Gallery in Washington, but this is now quite rare. Fortunately, there are still donors who are not…
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Back to L’Aquila (5). The rediscovered frescoes of Santa Maria della MisericordiaThe destruction caused by earthquakes can sometimes be offset by the rediscovery of works that had remained hidden for centuries. This is the case in L’Aquila, notably in a small church that is…
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Death of General Jean-Louis GeorgelinThe information comes from the newspaper L’Opinion and was tweeted less than an hour ago, and we have been able to confirm it. General Jean-Louis Georgelin, who had been appointed to head the…
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Back to L’Aquila (4). An exhibition about the Maestro di Campo di GioveAs part of the tour of the Museo Nationale d’Abruzzo, from 26 May until 3 September there is a very interesting focused exhibition accompanying the recent acquisition of four panels depicting…
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Back to L’Aquila (3). Il Museo Nazionale d’AbruzzoSince its creation in 1951, the National Museum of Abruzzo has been housed in the Forte Spagnolo of L’Aquila, built in the 16th century. This impressive fortress, designed by the architect Pere…
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Back to L’Aquila (2). The church of Santa Maria del SuffragioAs was the case on a much larger scale in Sicily after the devastating earthquake of 1693, the 1703 seism in L’Aquila in Abruzzo was also the occasion for the construction of religious buildings…
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Marquet in NormandyIl y avait eu cette dernière décennie Pissarro, Boudin puis Dufy, le Musée André Malraux poursuit avec Marquet son cycle d’expositions consacrées aux peintres qui ont entretenu un lien particulier avec…
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A 17th-century chess set donated to the Grünes GewölbeSome birthday presents are more amusing than others: all visitors to the 2022 edition of Tefaf Maastricht (see article) will remember this marvellous ebony and ivory chessboard that seemed to…
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A painting by Rochegrosse acquired by the Petit PalaisIt is difficult to know whether this Japanese from Workshop is really Sarah Bernhardt. The painting is by Georges Rochegrosse, who represented the actress on several occasions. It was bought by…
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Cross in the light of the Var, "the most beautiful country in the world"His name is a sparkling invitation, and yet the beach at Baigne-cul remains deserted, barely animated by three boys, or rather by a single one, depicted three times under a blazing sun. The…
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A French artist’s decor at Sant’Andrea al QuirinaleThe church of Sant’Andrea al Quirinale, one of Bernini’s architectural masterpieces, is certainly one of the best known in Rome. But in this city of inexhaustible heritage, even the most famous…
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Hubert-Sauzeau, an exhibition in Niort, Deux-Sèvres departmentHe had benefited in 2017 and again in 2019 from two discreet focused exhibitions organised by the Musée Bernard d’Agesci in Niort at the initiative of its director, Laurence Lamy, who had been…
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Back to L’Aquila (1), twelve years laterIn July 2011, just over two years after the earthquake that struck the Abruzzo town of L’Aquila, we visited the restoration work underway. At the time, the city was partly off-limits, and the…
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A Letourneur sculpture donated to CherbourgFlesh that you cut, old chap, it’s a disturbing thing, you love it and you’re afraid of it, it vibrates so much. But it’s very difficult to work, it’s as hard as a donkey and the tools only go…
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A painting by Pietro Ricchi for VeniceA painting acquired by the Gallerie dell’Accademia in Venice brings to mind an artist who is difficult to pin down: Pietro Ricchi, nicknamed "il Lucchese". The work, bought on 16 November 2022 at…
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A drawing by Jacob de Wit for ClevelandAlways well present in the aisles of the Salon du Dessin, North American museums rarely miss an opportunity to enrich their collections: quickly reserved on the beautiful stand of the Dutch…
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Ingres. The artist and his princesWe were thrilled with the visit. Reading the remarkable catalogue completes our conviction: this Ingres exhibition at the Château de Chantilly is a great success. It presents the five paintings…
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Three new Eugène Boudins for GivernyA precursor of Impressionism, close to Jongkind and Monet, Eugène Boudin entered the Musée des Impressionnismes in 2020. Acquired from the Galerie de la Présidence, his panel Deauville, le bassin…
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Boston buys the Saint Cecilia by Diana Di RosaIn our review of the last Maastricht Fair, we wrote that a painting presented by the Porcini gallery, Saint Cecilia with an Angel, had been acquired by an American museum. We can now give its…
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Interview with Xavier Bray, Director of the Wallace CollectionXavier Bray has been Director of the Wallace Collection since 2016. We caught up with him in London to talk about his seven years at the helm of one of England’s most prestigious museums - which,…
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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 terracotta by Vinache donated to the National Gallery of Art in WashingtonLargely forgotten nowadays, Jean Joseph Vinache was nevertheless one of the fine sculptors of eighteenth-century France, even though he first made his career in Saxony, where his most famous work…
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Pierre Alexandre Morlon, art in the service of the RepublicTaking an interest in artists of local origin is one of the missions of French provincial museums, and we can only congratulate those who do so. Those born in Paris are often much less fortunate…
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