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Gerrit van Honthorst (1590-1656)

  • News Items : A Honthorst Masterpiece Acquired by the National Gallery in Washington 28/11/2013

    The National Gallery in Washington recently acquired a masterpiece by Gerrit Honthorst representing a concert. This is a daytime scene, without the lighting effects found in the chiaroscuro paintings by the artist known in Italy as Gherardo (...)

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  • News Items : Restitution and Acquisitions at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Montreal 03/05/2013

    Thanks to a surprising coincidence, the Canadian museum has acquired a magnificent painting by Gerrit van Honthorst at the same time as it returned a work by the same artist to its owners after realizing it had been looted from a Jewish family, (...)

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  • Exhibitions : Bodies and Shadows. Caravaggio and European Caravaggism 13/08/2012

    With the sole exception, almost forty years ago now, of the exhibition organized by Jean-Pierre Cuzin and Arnauld Brejon de Lavergnée , which in fact included only French artists (or, some thought to be so at the time), there has not been a show (...)

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  • Exhibitions : Masters of European Drawing from the 16th to the 20th century. Georges Pebereau Collection 14/01/2010

    Should private collections be exhibited at the Louvre ? The answer is certainly yes when they are of museum quality. This was the case for the Louis-Antoine Prat’s and also the Motais de Narbonne’s which will be shown in the spring. Can one say (...)

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