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
The Département des sculptures at the Louvre made this beautiful acquisition at Sotheby's Paris, purchasing this marble relief last 14 May which had remained unsold after the auction. The work represents Hope, identified by the anchor, and is by (...)
Sébastien Allard was appointed Director of the Département des peintures at the Musée du Louvre today. A graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieur and Conservateur en chef du patrimoine, Sébastien Allard was until now in charge of 19th century French (...)
Definitely active at the auctions held during the Semaine du Dessin, the Département des Arts Graphiques at the Louvre also made two purchases at the Salon du Dessin. The first drawing was acquired at Jean-Luc Baroni's. It is by Jacob Matham, a (...)
In the now established tradition of events held during the Semaine du Dessin, the département des Arts Graphiques at the Louvre was active this week during the auctions organized in the capital, reflecting also the current art scene by (...)
A mother is playing with her child showing it his reflection in the mirror held by a young woman while her father-in-law smiles down at the them and the husband looks affectionately at his father with yet another woman bending over the child. At (...)
The Musée du Louvre made a very fine purchase today at Drouot by pre-empting for 60,000€ (before charges) at Auction Art two drawings by Romanelli, representing respectively The Abudction of the Sabine Women and The Continence of Scipion, (...)
The Département des Arts Graphiques at the Musée du Louvre this afternoon pre-empted two pastel portraits by Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun representing respectively Louis-Philippe d'Orléans and Madame de Montesson for 52,000€ (before charges) at (...)
Antoine Benoist (1632-1717) Bust of Suzanne Phélypeaux, 1690 Bronze - 61.8 x 26.5 x 24.8 cm Paris, Musée du Louvre Photo : Galerie Kugel 6/3/14 - Acquisition - Paris, Musée du Louvre - The Musée du Louvre acquired a bust of Suzanne Phélypeaux by (...)
The list remains confidential and is to be released by the Emirates but we can already reveal here that Leonardo's La Belle Ferronnière will be sent by the Louvre to Abou-Dhabi for the grand opening of its satellite. Once again, we feel it is (...)
The Musée du Louvre has just acquired a very beautiful 17th century painting, an unusual addition as this had not happened for a very long time. This is of course not a purchase as the museum had abandoned any attempt at adding to this collection (...)
A masterpiece by a little-known painter is worth more than a mediocre work by a famous artist. The recent purchase made by the Département des Arts Graphiques at the Musée du Louvre from the Bayser Gallery in Paris illustrates the wisdom of this (...)
Museums rarely announce their recent acquisitions. Nevertheless, the Louvre has just published a press release listing several donations and purchases which we had already mentioned (the two paintings by Michel-Ange Challe, the Lamentation by (...)
Vincent Pomarède, Director of the Département des peintures at the Musée du Louvre since 2003 when he replaced Jean Pierre Cuzin, created an unexpected surprise yesterday, even in his own department, announcing that he was applying for a new (...)
We cannot help but hope that certain works which come up for auction will be pre-empted by a museum. This was indeed the case for the study by Jules Elie Delaunay acquired finally by Compiègne and it was also our wish for the very beautiful (...)
A look at the bulletin published by the Amis du Louvre, in an item written by Xavier Salmon, apprises us that a drawing by Joseph Parrocel, exhibited at the last Salon du Dessin by the Jean-François Baroni Gallery, which we had reproduced in a (...)
Thanks to the help of the Société des Amis du Louvre, the museum recently received a donation made by Christian and Nathalie Volle and by Marie-Catherine Sahut consisting of two canvases painted by Michel-Ange Challe (or Charles-Michel-Ange (...)
The Département des Sculptures at the Louvre recently purchased a terracotta by the Belgian sculptor Gilles-Lambert Godecharle representing Charity from the Patrice Bellanger Gallery in Paris. Signed and dated 1795, this very accomplished study (...)
The directors of the departments at the Louvre are appointed by the French Minister of Culture based on proposals made by the President of the Museum. He has now submitted two names to Aurélie Filippetti to head the Département des Arts Graphiques (...)
A small Florentine Christ on the Cross, made of wood, most likely linden, which can probably be dated back to around 1500, has been generously donated to the Musée du Louvre by Peter Silvermann and Kathleen Onorato. The Département des Sculptures (...)
During the remarkable exhibition at the Musée de la Vie Romantique, in 2003, highlighting the Froment-Meurice family, the Surtout commissioned by the Duke of Luynes from François-Désiré Froment-Meurice was included in the catalogue but not (...)
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 [2] 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 (...)
