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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
Currently staging one of the best exhibitions available at the moment, the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyon continues its very dynamic acquisitions policy (other pieces will be presented shortly). It recently purchased two studies, one painted, the (...)
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 museum in Lyon just announced that it has met its goal in the fundraiser to acquire the Ingres painting depicting Pietro Aretino Receiving an Envoy of Charles V. The 80,000 euros still needed for the purchase, a total of 750,000 euros from (...)
About two years ago, a young man offered the art dealer Michel Descours, in Lyon, an important ensemble of drawings by a 19th century Lyon painter, Paul Borel, which he had found at a yard sale. It did not take long for the dealer to realize (...)
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 Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyon has just launched a fundraising drive to acquire a magnificent painting by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres representing Aretino and Charles V's Envoy At the 1855 Salon, corresponding to the Exposition Universelle, (...)
A look at the catalogue of the Laurent Pécheux retrospective enables us to discover several acquisitions made since 2008 of works by this artist which we had not learned of earlier and thus had not mentioned here. The exhibition now provides us (...)
In 2007 and 2008, the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyon enriched its collections through acquisitions and donations with an ensemble of stained glass windows, drawings and watercolors by the painter and glassmaker Auguste Morisot, a native of this (...)
A painting by Louis Cretey (from the Michel Descours collection) has joined the French public collections through acceptance in lieu. The Ministry of Culture has assigned the canvas to the Louvre which did not previously own any works by the (...)
A native of Lyon, who studied under Bon Boullogne and received the Grand Prix of the Académie Royale in France, Daniel Sarrabat was practically unknown before this retrospective in Bourg-en-Bresse, despite a very active career in Lyon and its (...)
Although we sometimes receive information which we could publish well before anyone else, we refrain from doing so in the interest of protecting a museum or historical monument, or because our source provided it under certain conditions. In many (...)
1. Louis Janmot (1814-1892) Self-portrait, 1832 Oil on canvas - 81 x 65.5 cm Lyon, Musée des Beaux-Arts Photo : Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon 26/12/10 – Acquisitions – Lyon, Musee des Beaux-Arts – In 2007, the Musee des Beaux-Arts in Lyon presented (...)
This is one of the most interesting and innovative exhibitions currently showing in France. True, art specialists along with a few enlightened amateurs already knew Louis Cretey. But, with the exception of perhaps Michel Descours, the collector (...)
The Commission consultative des trésors nationaux has just listed a painted relief by Paul Gauguin, currently in a private collection abroad, in this category. The Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyon, which wishes to acquire the work, has launched a (...)
The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon’s graphic collection is not well-known and generally speaking underrated, except for 19th century French drawings which have been showcased in several exhibitions and publications. It would be surprising, however, (...)
Nicolas Poussin never painted the moon, I would venture to say. Just like Philippe de Champaigne, he knew how to paint the spiritual in art, but unlike the latter who dared, and successfully so, to represent celestial phenomena, Poussin’s world (...)
The museum in Lyon managed to obtain the deposit of The Flight into Egypt by Nicolas Poussin, in danger of being sold abroad, after the Ministry of Culture listed it as a “national treasure” and as a result of Sylvie Ramond’s patient fundraising (...)
