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Paris, Musée du Louvre

  • News Items : A Relief by Louis Le Conte Acquired by the Louvre 18/05/2014

    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 (...)

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  • News Items : Sébastien Allard Appointed Director of the Département des Peintures at the Louvre 14/04/2014

    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 (...)

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  • News Items : The Louvre Makes Two Purchases at the Salon du Dessin 04/04/2014

    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 (...)

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  • News Items : A 17th century Ceiling Drawing Pre-empted by the Louvre 28/03/2014

    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 (...)

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  • News Items : A Painting by Pajou the Younger Acquired by the Louvre 27/03/2014

    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 (...)

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  • News Items : The Louvre Pre-empts Two Drawings by Romanelli 26/03/2014

    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, (...)

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  • News Items : Two Pastels by Vigée Le Brun Pre-empted by the Louvre 23/03/2014

    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 (...)

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  • News Items : A Bronze Bust by Antoine Benoist Acquired by the Louvre 06/03/2014

    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 (...)

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  • News Items : Leonardo’s Belle Ferronnière To Leave for Abou-Dhabi 03/02/2014

    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 (...)

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  • News Items : A Beautiful Painting by Beinaschi Joins the Louvre 23/01/2014

    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 (...)

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  • News Items : A Magnificent Pastel by Simon Bernard Lenoir Acquired by the Louvre 21/01/2014

    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 (...)

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  • News Items : Waldmüller and Poyer : Three Acquisitions for the Département des Arts Graphiques 16/01/2014

    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 (...)

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  • News Items : Vincent Pomarède Leaving the Département des Peintures at the Louvre 07/01/2014

    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 (...)

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  • News Items : The Lamentation of the Body of Christ by François Barrois Pre-Empted by the Louvre 31/12/2013

    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 (...)

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  • News Items : A Drawing by Joseph Parrocel Donated by the Amis du Louvre to the Département des Arts Graphiques 23/12/2013

    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 (...)

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  • News Items : Two Paintings by Michel-Ange Challe Donated to the Louvre 23/12/2013

    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 (...)

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  • News Items : A Terracotta by Godecharle for the Louvre 25/10/2013

    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 (...)

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  • News Items : Two Appointments for Heads of Department at the Louvre Submitted to the French Minister of Culture 18/06/2013

    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 (...)

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  • News Items : Donation of a {Christ on the Cross} of Michelangelo Influence to the Louvre 17/06/2013

    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 (...)

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  • News Items : The Duke of Luynes’ {Surtout} by Froment-Meurice Acquired by the Louvre 14/06/2013

    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 (...)

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  • News Items : Acceptance in Lieu of Ary Scheffer for the Louvre 13/05/2013

    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 (...)

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  • Exhibitions : Mexico at the Louvre. Masterpieces from New Spain, 17th and 18th centuries. 09/05/2013

    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 (...)

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  • News Items : A Nicolas Mignard Donated to the Louvre as a Promised Gift 15/04/2013

    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 (...)

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  • News Items : The Louvre Pre-empts a Boucher 08/04/2013

    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 (...)

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  • News Items : Jean-Luc Martinez, President-Director of the Louvre 03/04/2013

    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 (...)

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  • Editorial : I, the President of the French Republic, Will Appoint Martine Aubry as Head of the Louvre ! 25/03/2013

    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 (...)

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  • News Items : The Louvre Bookshop : the RmnGP Reassures Publishers 19/03/2013

    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 (...)

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  • News Items : The Louvre Bookshop Threatened 11/03/2013

    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 (...)

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  • News Items : Acquisition of a Byzantine Ivory Diptych by the Louvre 07/03/2013

    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 (...)

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  • News Items : Death of Roseline Bacou and Adeline Cacan de Bissy 06/03/2013

    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 (...)

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  • News Items : Saint Michael’s Lamp, a Work by Félicie de Fauveau Acquired by the Louvre 04/03/2013

    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, (...)

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  • News Items : La Liberté Vandalized at the Louvre in Lens 11/02/2013

    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 (...)

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  • News Items : The Two Ivories for the Descent from the Cross finally Acquired by the Louvre 04/02/2013

    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 (...)

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  • News Items : A Painting by Luca Penni Acquired by the Louvre 08/01/2013

    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 (...)

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  • News Items : Publication of "La recherche au Musée du Louvre 2011" 06/01/2013

    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) (...)

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  • News Items : A Painting by Francesco Hayez Acquired by the Louvre 15/12/2012

    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 (...)

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  • News Items : A Virgin by Simon Challe for the Louvre, its Model now Found 10/12/2012

    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 (...)

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  • Museums : The Opening of the Louvre-Lens 06/12/2012

    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 (...)

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  • News Items : The Amis du Louvre Will Pay to See the Works in Lens 02/12/2012

    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 (...)

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  • News Items : The Louvre Pre-Empts a Painting by Hubert Robert 18/11/2012

    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 (...)

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  • News Items : Two Works Pre-Empted at Sotheby’s by the Louvre and Angers 16/11/2012

    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 (...)

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  • News Items : The Louvre Opens a Fundraiser to Purchase Two Gothic Statuettes 24/10/2012

    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 (...)

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  • News Items : Opening of the Département des Arts de l’Islam at the Louvre 19/09/2012

    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 (...)

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  • News Items : A Painting by Emmanuel Leutze Donated by the American Friends of the Louvre 03/09/2012

    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 (...)

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  • News Items : A Promised Gift to the Louvre of a Landscape by Gabriel Prieur 28/06/2012

    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 (...)

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  • News Items : Two Fragments of a Danloux Painting Reunited at the Louvre 25/06/2012

    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 (...)

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  • News Items : A Bouchardon Bust Pre-Empted by the Louvre 13/06/2012

    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 (...)

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  • News Items : Naigeon Drawings Acquired by Several Museums 08/06/2012

    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 (...)

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  • Editorial : The Incredible Intellectual Void of the Louvre-Lens 19/04/2012

    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 (...)

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  • Museums : Delacroix’s La Liberté, Ingres’ Monsieur Bertin, Rahael’s Balthazar Castiglione or the Louvre Beheaded by Lens 17/04/2012

    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 (...)

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