The Palais des Beaux-Arts in Lille recently exhibited several works by Velvet Brueghel lent by different European establishments in the show Fables du paysage flamand, but last April it acquired its own drawing by the artist, representing a (...)
Images are "made to mean something different from what we see with our eyes", asserted Cesare Ripa. The Palais des Beaux-Arts in Lille makes a brilliant demonstration of this axiom in an iconological exhibition highlighting the "fables in the (...)
Famous for the quantity and quality of its old master drawings, the Frits Lugt collection also holds an ensemble of paintings which are currently being highlighted in an exhibition at the Institut néerlandais, following a campaign of restoration (...)
Acquired in 1708 for the princes’ collections in Saxony (under Augustus II the Strong), inventory number A701 in the inaugural catalogue for the gallery in 1722
