Dimanche 18 août 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
At the age of 93, Jayne Wrightsman, the widow of Charles Wrightsman, continues the patronage which she and her husband (who died in 1986) have always pursued towards the Metropolitan Museum. This American institution has thus received a donation (...)
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 All of the canvases, some of which are unpublished, come exclusively from French collections, either (...)
“A great or a minor master ?” asks Jacques Foucart in a catalogue essay which raises many other questions as well. This is not the first time this one comes up and the Lille exhibition on Louis-Léopold Boilly, often reduced to the stature of a (...)
The very beautiful exhibition on Louis-Léopold Boilly which just opened at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Lille and for which we will soon publish a review comes at almost the same time as the recent acquisition of a painting and a drawing by the (...)
The Biennale des antiquaires is now accompanied by an increasing number of exhibitions off at Parisian antique dealers’, and which are often highly interesting. We already mentioned here the exhibitions at the J. Kugel (...)
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 (...)
Just a few days apart, the Louvre pre-empted, on 20 October in Marseille (Damien Leclere Auction House) and on 31 October in Paris (Thierry de Maigret AH) two works
