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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
2/9/13 - Acquisitions - Lyon, Musée des Beaux-Arts - The Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyon, which had launched a fundraising appeal in December 2012 in order to acquire two paintings by Fragonard, The Rock and The Watering Hole, owned by a private (...)
The Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyon is closing its fundraising drive for the purchase of an Ingres painting on 15 December, but it is continuing its ambitious acquisitions policy as announced yesterday in the Journal Officiel with the launch of a (...)
The Fragonard portrait which has, almost, always been known as Portrait of Diderot is in fact not a likeness of the philosopher as proven by the drawing recently auctioned off and published for the first time on 17 July on The Art Tribune by (...)
Fragonard’s work can often be compared to a gauntlet thrown down to the historians of art to test their sagacity. Rare are the sheets of drawings that do not raise questions or doubts regarding their attribution, date and origin or even (...)
The Getty has just announced the acquisition of two very different works. One is a 16th century German panel, the other an 18th century French drawing. However, both are of the finest quality. The painting, representing the Trinity surrounded by (...)
The Musée des Augustins has chosen to approach the chaotic period between the French Revolution and the Restoration by way of genre painting. All of the canvases, some of which are unpublished, come exclusively from French collections, either (...)
Particularly fascinated by the 18th century, Jean-François Costa, the grandson of the founder of Fragonard Perfumes in Grasse today managed by his daughters, has assembled a remarkable collection of paintings dominated by the figures of (...)
The theme of the influence of Antiquity on the art of the second half of the 18th century, what is commonly called Neoclassicism, is treated often. This does not however detract from the fact that the exhibition at the Louvre is a resounding (...)
Her name always linked to her master Fragonard – and the current exhibition is no exception to the rule – Marguerite Gérard always had a difficult time existing in her own right in the eyes of later generations. In the last few years, thanks to (...)
Many of the acquisitions made by the Metropolitan Museum in recent months have not been mentioned here and it is now high time that we take a look at the latest additions
