Lundi 20 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
This fundamental painting, still lacking seriously at the Louvre, has just joined the Metropolitan Museum. However, the Parisian establishment is not to blame in this case since it was never given the opportunity to purchase this work which left (...)
The evening of the inauguration for TEFAF (the Maastricht Fair), the Metropolitan, which had recently acquired a ewer from the Kugel gallery, again made a purchase from the same dealers, a second ewer with its (...)
The spout on this unique object presents a fantastic creature with a man's head and the bust of a winged woman resting on the mask of a mustachioed man with his mouth wide open. The handle is in the shape of a hybrid being with a serpent's body (...)
Several paintings recently joined the collections at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, one of the world's most active in its acquisitions policy. An oil on copper from the early 17th century representing a cardinal and his suite was donated to the (...)
Estimated at between 150 and 200,000 euros, an enamelled plaque from the late 12th century soared to 680,000 euros at the auction organized by Etienne de Baecque and Géraldine d'Ouince in Lyon on 27 May 2013. The happy buyer is none other than (...)
The Metropolitan Museum pronounced the winning bid of 1.44 million euros (including charges) for the Le Brun painting last 15 April at Christie's Paris. Entitled The Sacrifice of Polyxena, the work resided at the Ritz (located in the Hôtel (...)
Tuesday evening, a large crowd eagerly attended the inauguration of the Salon du Dessin, more so than last year. This high attendance was all the more appreciated by the dealers because, according to them, major collectors and curators (French, (...)
At almost life size, a bronze by William Theed, the Elder, was acquired by the Metropolitan in 2012 from the Tomasso Brothers Fine Art gallery. It represents Thetis sitting on a shell carrying her son Achilles' arms from Vulcan's forge. She (...)
Paul Jeromack announced it in an article published in The Art Newspaper : the Metropolitan Museum last 29 January purchased a drawing by Jacques-Louis David at an auction held at Swann Galleries in New York for the very reasonable amount of $700 (...)
Of the major museums, the Metropolitan is no doubt the one with the most active acquisitons policy at the moment. We try to provide regular updates but it is sometimes hard to keep up with their pace. This is especially true for the drawings as (...)
The Metropolitan Museum is innovating by launching MetPublications which offers free PDF downloading of a part, and eventually all, of its out-of-print publications (exhibition catalogues, colloquia proceedings, collection catalogues...). Anyone (...)
What a masterpiece ! The expression might sound a bit trite but is the first to come to mind when looking at the Portrait of Talleyrand by François Gérard just acquired by the Metropolitan Museum from the Wildenstein Gallery in New York. The (...)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has recently acquired a drawing by Baron Gérard, Daphnis Running after Chloé, an illustration project which was never used for The Pastoral Loves of Daphnis and Chloé, from the Terrades Gallery in Paris. This (...)
At the age of 93, Jayne Wrightsman, the widow of Charles Wrightsman, continues the patronage which she and her husband (who died in 1986) have always pursued towards the Metropolitan Museum. This American institution has thus received a donation (...)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art received a bequest in the form of a painting by Francesco Maffei which we had overlooked in our news item of 24 April and which joined the museum collections in 2012. Representing Hagar and the Angel, dating from (...)
The Metropolitan Museum recently acquired two 17th and 19th century paintings, their only point in common being that they are both from Italy. The first is a Woman Martyr by the Lombard painter, Carlo Francesco Nuvolone , bequeathed to the (...)
The Metropolitan Museum recently purchased two copper sconces representing the Evangelists Mark and Luke from the Parisian gallery, Brimo de Laroussilhe. The identification is indicated by the inscription visible on the tablets : Christum de (...)
The first day of the Fabius auction which took place on 26 October at Sotheby's Paris, the Metropolitan Museum acquired the pair of Medici vases, second size, in hard-paste Sèvres porcelain, painted and signed by Jean-François Robert, a specialist (...)
Besides the acquisition of a painting and a drawing by Perino del Vaga which we already pointed out, several other works have joined the Metropolitan Museum since the beginning of the year. At the same auction at Sotheby’s New York on 27 January, (...)
In just two days, the 26 and 27 January 2011, the Metropolitan Museum acquired a drawing by Perino del Vaga, one of Raphael’s most important pupils, at Sotheby’s auction in New York, then also a painting by the same (...)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has acquired a considerable number of drawings over the past few years, and it would be almost impossible to cover the subject in an exhaustive manner. We will post an acquisition database in the next few months (...)
18/10/10 – Acquisitions – New York, Metropolitan Museum and Morgan Library – The news did not make the headlines despite its importance : last year, Gene and Clare Thaw, already generous donors to the Metropolitan Museum and the Morgan Library made (...)
We continue our presentation here of recent acquisitions by the Metropolitan Museum with three 19th century French paintings donated by Mrs. Charles Wrightsman.
In 2009 the Metropolitan Museum received a small copper by Annibale Carracci representing Saint John the Baptist Showing Christ as a donation from Fabrizio Moretti and Adam Williams in tribute to Everett Fahy. The work had been sold at Sotheby’s (...)
With an already rich collection of Edgar Degas works starting with the Havemeyer donation in 1929 as well as others which have followed since, the Metropolitan Museum recently added to this ensemble two paintings and a drawing by the (...)
The New York museum has enriched its collection with an important painting by Valentin de Boulogne representing a lute player
Late last spring, and with help from the Wrightsman fund, the Met acquired a canvas by Eugène Delacroix
It was the most awaited nomination in the museum world. Thomas Campbell has just been named director of the Metropolitan Museum succeeding Philippe de Montebello who
At the end of July, the Metropolitan Museum announced the purchase of a rare unpublished drawing by Lucas de Leyde, one of 28 which carry the artist’s signature
On 5 July 2007, Christie’s London presented a small Piet by Domenichino on copper
Exhibitions are quite often the perfect occasion to assemble not only works but also researchers by bringing them together usually for two or three days, be it at times in a fishbowl, close to the paintings. This is known as a colloquium. It is (...)
The Poussin exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum, which arrived here from Bilbao, cannot be reduced to its title alone. First of all because it is a veritable retrospective given the continuous presence of nature and landscapes throughout the (...)
Many of the acquisitions made by the Metropolitan Museum in recent months have not been mentioned here and it is now high time that we take a look at the latest additions
Philippe de Montebello, director of the Metropolitan Museum for more than thirty years officially announced to the Board of Trustees yesterday that he would retire at the end of 2008. The question of who would be chosen to replace Montebello who (...)
The Louvre is exhibiting until December 3 as its painting of the month a work by Carl Gustav Carus
