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Last update on 2/11/2016
The latest news in the History of Western Art from the Middle Ages to the 1930's
A painting by François Gérard representing the portrait of Comte Regnault de Saint-Jean d'Angély standing has disappeared from the château's storage rooms as announced in Le Parisien and confirmed by the museum. The theft was noticed on 14 February (...)
Following the publication of n°1 of the Cahiers du Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen we mentioned here, n°2 was of course awaited. It is always easier to start a new journal than to ensure its lasting presence. The quality of this new issue which (...)
What a masterpiece ! The expression might sound a bit trite but is the first to come to mind when looking at the Portrait of Talleyrand by François Gérard just acquired by the Metropolitan Museum from the Wildenstein Gallery in New York. The (...)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has recently acquired a drawing by Baron Gérard, Daphnis Running after Chloé, an illustration project which was never used for The Pastoral Loves of Daphnis and Chloé, from the Terrades Gallery in Paris. This (...)
Anyone familiar with the Musée Fesch – rebaptized Palais Fesch-Musée des Beaux-Arts d’Ajaccio – already knows that it houses one of France’s most important art collections, second only to the Louvre for its Italian paintings. The recent renovation, (...)
