"Your soul is a select landscape / Charmed by masks and bergamasques / Playing lutes and dancing and / Sad beneath their fanciful disguises". The music lesson proposed by the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels through Watteau's art is (...)
Since our last article highlighting acquisitions at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Valenciennes, the museum has added several more important works, thanks to both donations and purchases. The Carpeaux holdings have thus expanded with a drawing (...)
The TEFAF in Maastricht, year after year, continues to live up to its reputation as the most important art fair in the world. This is quite obvious for old masters, and even the 20th century (also contemporary art) is very well represented if we (...)
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The painting to be auctioned at Daguerre, along with Turquin's, at the Hôtel Drouot on 27 February 2013 undeniably raises many questions. Whatever the case, it does provide the occasion to tell an amusing story and discover an intriguing enigma : (...)
The Getty Museum has recently purchased as fully acknowledged by Antoine Watteau, a painting previously found in the Paul-Louis Weiller collection which had been auctioned at the Hôtel Drouot on 5 April 2011 at Gros-Delettrez under a cautious (...)
On 30 November, the Hôtel Drouot, under the gavel of the Millon auction house, will be featuring the first of four or five public sales offering an important collection of old master drawings. The seller's name has remained anonymous (Monsieur (...)