Dimanche 19 mai 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
"He grasps the character of the subjects ; the figures are well drawn, the draperies well laid, beautiful folds show finesse and sentiment." But Diderot's pen then starts to drip acid, writing the following lines, stating that Vincent's painting (...)
The Musée Fabre in Montpellier is continuing its remarkable acquisitions policy with a recent purchase of a Caravaggesque work, just one year after adding a painting by Lionello Spada, another Caravaggio follower, to its collections. This time it (...)
After Giverny, the exhibition Signac, The Colors of Water, is now being presented at the Musée Fabre until 27 October 2013. We will not return in detail to this show and refer our readers to Julie Demarle's article already published on this site. (...)
In little less than ten years, Eric Pagliano has published several catalogues of Italian drawings belonging to French museums and we have been fortunate to see all of the exhibitions surrounding them. After Orléans, Lyon and Grenoble, it is now (...)
These past two years, the Musée Fabre in Montpellier, the region's most active institution in terms of acquisitions (both in quantity and quality) enriched its collections with two works by Dominique-Louis-Ferréol Papety thanks to the generosity (...)
Among those artists highlighted at the Musée Fabre there is obviously the one who bequeathed his collections and gave it his name, François-Xavier Fabre. Besides the great retrospective staged in 2008, the museum continues to make regular (...)
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 (...)
The Musée Fabre has just acquired The Scoter by Frédéric Bazille, sold at auction for $242,500 at Sotheby's New York last 3rd May. Having died at the age of only 28, this artist from Montpellier painted about sixty works, many residing at the Musée (...)
At TEFAF 2011, the Canesso Gallery had exhibited a canvas by Lionello Spada representing a Lamentation of Christ Dead which we had illustrated in an article devoted to this trade fair, saying it was one of the most beautiful paintings on view (...)
Of all the 17th century painted décors in Paris now disappeared, commissioned from Sébastien Bourdon in 1662 for the Hôtel de Bretonvilliers at the east end of the Ile Saint Louis, but destroyed along with the building housing it in 1840, this is (...)
The Musée has recently acquired, from F. Baulme Fine Arts in Paris, a study of the reception piece for the Academy by Jacques (or Jacob) van Schuppen painted in 1704, Meleager Killing the Calydonian Boar. The son of the Antwerp engraver, Pierre (...)
In November 2010, the Musée Fabre purchased a beautiful painting by Giovanni David, Tobias Burying the Dead from the Michel Descours Gallery in Lyon. This artist from Genoa, who died at 41, was a student of Domenico Corvi in Rome where he arrived (...)
The Musée Fabre continues to make essential contributions to art history through its exhibitions. Thanks to this establishment several important artists now boast a reference work, published in accompaniment to a thorough retrospective of their (...)
The very beautiful retrospective highlighting Alexandre Cabanel at the Musee Fabre which recently opened for a duration of five months and which we will soon review, has been chosen as the occasion to reveal a large painting by this artist, The (...)
The Musée Fabre is undoubtedly the most active establishment in the provinces today when it comes to acquisitions. We will soon offer an article detailing the many works recently added to its collections. For the moment, we wish to point out the (...)
Although sculpture is not often taken into consideration by museums, alas, Houdon is an exception to the rule. The exhibition at the Musée Fabre in Montpellier is the third one highlighting the artist in the last few years. Versailles had (...)
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Some art historians of Neoclassicism use the expression “the three G’s” in designating David’s leading students : Girodet, Gros and Gérard to whom they at times add a fourth, Guérin, although he belonged to Regnault’s (...)
Between 1980 and 1990 several major British and American museums acquired the few beautiful Fabre paintings available on the art market.
