Lundi 20 mai 2019
Last update on 2/11/2016
Last update on 2/11/2016
The latest news in the History of Western Art from the Middle Ages to the 1930's
This fundamental painting, still lacking seriously at the Louvre, has just joined the Metropolitan Museum. However, the Parisian establishment is not to blame in this case since it was never given the opportunity to purchase this work which left (...)
In the now established tradition of events held during the Semaine du Dessin, the département des Arts Graphiques at the Louvre was active this week during the auctions organized in the capital, reflecting also the current art scene by (...)
The subject is enticing and very much in keeping with the season. The new exhibition at the Gobelins is a hymn to nature, vegetation and the power of flowers, all less ephemerous when growing in wool and silk. About fifty tapestry and furniture (...)
The Metropolitan Museum pronounced the winning bid of 1.44 million euros (including charges) for the Le Brun painting last 15 April at Christie's Paris. Entitled The Sacrifice of Polyxena, the work resided at the Ritz (located in the Hôtel (...)
With over 200 works - paintings, sculptures, drawings, tapestries, art objects, furniture - the exhibition evokes in a magnificent manner the fascination and the presence of the Antique at Versailles at the time of Louis XIV. This is a (...)
After Rome and Bordeaux (see article in French), it is now Paris' turn to welcome the tapestry series The Story of Moses after eight paintings by Poussin and two by Le Brun, now on display to the public at the Galerie des Gobelins. The visit (...)
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We know that Jacques Thuillier, who recently passed away, was an exceptional collector and a generous donor to French museums. Two groups of works were donated respectively to Nancy and Vic-sur-Seille. The (very theoretical) anonymity (...)
The château of Versailles continues its program of restoring the painted decors of the royal apartments, after notably the Salon d’Hercule and the Hall of Mirrors, work recently finished on the ceiling of the antechamber in the Grand (...)
The Abbaye Saint-Germain, housing the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire d’Auxerre, is made up of a group of buildings centered around an 18th century cloister. In the 20th century, the site was occupied by a hospital which moved in 1962, except for the (...)
Generally, the large compositions of the History of Alexander by Charles Le Brun exhibited at the Louvre (and at Versailles) are thought to be preparatory cartoons for tapestries. Actually, these paintings, which were first intended most (...)
After Sceaux and Arras, this exhibition of a private collection will end its tour at the Musée Bonnat. We should have talked about it much earlier (we saw it in Sceaux a year ago now and those readers who missed it and are unable to go to Bayonne (...)
The second half of June and early July represents one of the two busiest moments of the year in auction sales for old masters, with the second occurring six months later, end of December and early January. Catalogues flourish and offer important (...)