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The latest news in the History of Western Art from the Middle Ages to the 1930's
Thanks to a donation of "acceptance in lieu", the Musée du Louvre has just added a superb tableau by Ary Scheffer, representing Ruth and Naomi to its collections. This panel still has its beautiful original frame showing quotes from the book of (...)
Among the positive actions exerted by Henri Loyrette as head of the Louvre there is the undeniable effort to extend the scope of the painting and sculpture collections to previously unexplored territories. This was notably the case first for (...)
In our review of the 2009 Maastricht fair, we had reproduced a beautiful painting by Nicolas Mignard, The Rapt of Proserpina, presented at the Galleria Silvano & Lodi. The work had then been exhibited at the Paris-Tableau by Jean-François (...)
The Louvre pre-empted a study by François Boucher, A Meal during the Hunt, this afternoon at the Hôtel Drouot, at Beaussant-Lefèvre auctioneers, for 100,000 euros (without charges). The work, illustrated in the catalogue for the exhibition, Chasses (...)
Although everyone was predicting Sylvie Ramond - the French Minister of Culture's choice -, the official appointment will name instead, according to our sources, Jean-Luc Martinez, 49, as President-Director of the Louvre, during the Council of (...)
Le Figaro Magazine published it "confidentially" last weekend, but the name had been rumored for several weeks already, practically since Henri Loyrette announced he did not wish to renew his position as president of the Louvre. We knew it but (...)
The RmnGP wished to react to our article which followed up on a statement signed by several publishers, appearing in Livre-Hebdo, criticizing its plans to move the Louvre bookshop to the mezzanine level and bring the souvenir and gift objects (...)
4/3/13 - Musée du Louvre - Bookshop - The Réunion des Musées Nationaux is getting ready, with the Louvre's complicity, to do serious harm to the bookshop located under the pyramid, although it has imposed itself since 1989 as one of the richest and (...)
After being acknowledged as a National Treasure, a 13th century diptych sculpted in ivory, held in a private collection and planned for auction, finally joined the collections at the Louvre. Marie-Christine Labourdette reminded us that the term (...)
Roseline Bacou passed away last 8 February at the age of 89. After graduating from the University of Montpellier, she joined the Cabinet des dessins at the Louvre in 1949 where she spent her whole career, finishing from 1984 to 1988 as head of (...)
The Louvre has lent one of its latest acquisitions to the Historial de Vendée at Lucs-sur-Boulogne, currently presenting an exhibition on Félicie de Fauveau, which we will return to at length soon. The lamp, known as The Lamp of Saint Michael, (...)
A terse press release from the Louvre has just confirmed the news which had spread on Twitter last night : a woman visiting the Louvre-Lens scribbled an inscription with a marker on the lower part of La Liberté Guidant le Peuple by Delacroix and (...)
We had already known for several weeks that the fundraising drive launched by the Louvre for the acquisition of the ivory statues, the Synagogue and Saint John, completing a 13th century Descent from the Cross, had reached its goal. In order not (...)
Thanks to a chance offering on the art market, an extremely rare occurrence since there are very few painted works by Lucas Penni still preserved, the Musée du Louvre acquired a painting by this master (from the Jan Muller Antiques gallery in (...)
A little over a year ago, we had welcomed the publication by the Musée du Louvre of a hefty volume devoted to its scholarly activities. We regretted the fact that it was not for sale as the information provided (and the quality of its editing) (...)
A source of national pride in Italy, the great Romantic artist Francesco Hayez is relatively unknown elsewhere. There is good reason for this as practically all of his paintings held in public collections reside in his native country with a (...)
8/12/12 - Acquisition - Paris, Musée du Louvre - The opening of the Louvre-Lens at least served to help us discover, in the "Galerie du Temps", a superbe acquisition made in 2011 by the Département des sculptures [1] which we had overlooked (...)
In the December issue of The Art Newspaper, Vincent Pomarède, director of the Département des peintures at the Musée du Louvre, responded to our criticism of the Louvre Lens, notably the "Galerie du Temps" for which he is one of the curators, with (...)
Henri Loyrette likes to say that the works exhibited at the Louvre-Lens have not left the Louvre since the Louvre-Lens is the Louvre ! In an interview with Le Figaro published on 16 April 2012, he explained that "[the works] are not leaving the (...)
On 29 November 1789, Baron de Besenval, the military commander of the Ile-de-France region and of the Paris garrison when the first Revolutionary riots broke out (but also a great collector of Northern European paintings), was imprisoned at the (...)
During the auction "Collection d'un érudit parisien" at Sotheby's Paris on 9 November, the Musée du Louvre pre-empted a Bourbonnais drawing produced around 1515, Narcissus Looking at Himself in the Fountain of Love, Spied on by Echo, sold for (...)
There exist very few 13th century ivory groups and none of them is complete ; many show the Virgin, like the Crowning at the Louvre. The museum also holds a Descent from the Cross , a Parisian Gothic work notable because of its rarity but also (...)
Islamic arts and contemporary architecture do not fall into The Art Tribune's field of study. However, the opening of a new department at the Musée du Louvre and the construction within the establishment of a new exhibition space justifies our (...)
The "Painting of the Month" n° 192 at the Louvre (in fact exhibited for three months this summer until 3 September) highlighted a recent donation made by the American Friends of the Louvre. This is a painting by Emmanuel Leutze, representing (...)
The Louvre has just received a donation, in the form of a promised gift, of a painting by Gabriel Prieur representing a view of the Roman countryside, exhibited at the Salon of 1836 entitled The View of the Graves, a View of the Environs of (...)
During his exile in London due to the French Revolution, between 1791 and 1801, Henri-Pierre Danloux painted a large composition entitled Pity, inspired by a poem written by abbot Delille Malheur et Pitié, which describes a scene where a father (...)
The Louvre pre-empted a Bouchardon bust during the Aguttes auction at the Hôtel Drouot yesterday. Estimated at 3.5 to 4 million euros, this portrait of Charles-Frédéric de la Tour du Pin, Marquis du Gouvernet, which had remained in the family until (...)
Some time back, we had mentioned an exhibition of Jean-Claude Naigeon drawings at the Nathalie Motte Masselinck gallery. For many visitors, it was the first time they had ever heard of this Neo-Classic artist from Dijon. The sheets on view came (...)
Whether one is for or against the principle behind the Louvre-Lens, one aspect is sure to elicit unanimous agreement : the incredible intellectual void of this project. The works which are to be exhibited in the "Galerie du Temps" (the name (...)
The embargo on this information will be lifted tomorrow morning. However, since The Art Tribune has not received any information from the Louvre on the subject, this embargo does not concern us and we have chosen to discuss it (...)
The Musée du Louvre, during the Oger Blanchet auction at the Hôtel Drouot on 26 March 2012, pre-empted a painting by Jusepe Ribera representing Saint John Evangelist, for 285,000€ (without charges), immediately after being acquired by the Parisian (...)
Our article on the exhibition to be sent by the Louvre to Fukushima was echoed in the media. We can now add more information : The exhibition is in fact a bit richer than we had originally announced and it also contains drawings ; a list dated (...)
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 (...)
About a month ago we had announced that the Louvre was set to purchase a national treasure, a painting attributed to Jean Malouel, Pietà with Saint John and Two Angels. This is now official, with the price tag amounting to 7.8 million euros, made (...)
The Louvre will be sending about twenty works from all its departments (except Arts Graphiques) to three Japanese cities from 20 April to 17 September 2012 staying a little over a month at each stop[[The dates were provided by the Louvre. The (...)
The restoration of Leonardo da Vinci's Saint Anne has once again sparked off a debate, when in fact nothing new has happened since the month of October. We had known since the beginning about Jean-Pierre Cuzin’s opposition to this restoration, (...)
The Louvre recently acquired a pair of lidded tureens, with their liners and trays through Sotheby's[[This direct purchase was made possible with the help of Sotheby's thanks to the new law of 20 July 2011. The Louvre had already benefited from (...)
Every month, the Département des Peintures at the Musée du Louvre features a particular painting, accompanied by a brief study available to visitors free of charge at the reception desk of the museum when entering. This "painting of the month" (...)
The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (see some articles on its acquisitions) opened its doors to the public last 11 November. Specialized as its name indicates, in American Art, from the Colonial period to the 20th century, it was founded (...)
Following its appearance at an auction on 10 July 1987 at Christie's London, then entering a private collection in New York, The Resurrection of Lazarus by Jean Le Clerc, acquired by the Louvre this year from the art dealer Richard Feigen, was (...)
In 2011 the Louvre acquired a magnificent work by Pierre-Paul Prud'hon from the Roman gallery of Carlo Virgilio : a representation of the monument to Clement XIV executed by Canova between 1783 and 1787 for the basilica of the Saint Apostles. (...)
On Friday 8 April, during the inauguration of the Musée Fragonard in Grasse, which houses part of the Jean-François Costa collection, this patron donated a painting by Bartolomeo Vivarini representing The Virgin with Child to the (...)
We had predicted it, and it did not take long to happen. After Orsay where it all started, the Louvre followed suit shortly after and the Conciergerie is now covered in turn by giant advertising. The last one, managed by the Centre des Monuments (...)
In the last few years, the Département des Arts Graphiques at the Louvre has been organizing monograph exhibitions accompanied by small catalogues. This collection would benefit from developing this formula further and imposing fewer restrictions (...)
Last November we revealed that a Virgin with Child by Niccolo di Buonaccorso, a Trecento Siennese painter, donated as a promised gift to the Musée du Louvre had almost been auctioned off in Munich due to a series of unexplained (...)
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 (...)
The fundraising drive launched by the Louvre to acquire The Three Graces by Lucas Cranach was not just a success, but rather a triumphant victory for the museum which did not even have to await the deadline (31 January 2010) before meeting its (...)
19/12/10 – Art market – Paris-Painting – Last 16 December 2010, the Bourse welcomed a gathering of France’s art history elite : curators, dealers, collectors, specialized reporters… They all came for the official announcement of the new Salon, (...)
The Département des Arts Graphiques at the Louvre pre-empted a double-sided drawing by Théodore Géricault for 45.000€ (without charges) during an auction on 28 November at Lyons-la-Forêt (Pillet (...)
There will not be a “Friedrich affair” as we might have feared. Rather than setting off a legal marathon which might last years and still not resolve anything, the person selling the painting which reappeared at an auction in Cannes, and was (...)
