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
The Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris has just acquired a view of the coast at Belleville, in Seine Maritime, a masterpiece by Oscar Penguilly L'Haridon from the Vincent Lécuyer Gallery in Paris. The painting dates from 1868 and was (...)
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 (...)
It had been much too long since the Petit Palais had acquired an old master painting. This is now corrected with the announcement that the Parisian museum has purchased a portrait of a man by Abraham de Vries from the London gallery, Rafael (...)
Last 26 November we mentioned the acquisition of a drawing by Charles Girault by the Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, adding that we would soon discuss an upcoming event concerning this very architect and the same museum. (...)
The Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, pre-empted an important drawing by Charles Girault representing a View in Perspective of the Palaces on the Champs Elysées, a project for the Exposition Universelle of 1900, (for 6,000€ (...)
Deputy director of the Département des Arts Graphiques du Musée du Louvre which he joined in 2006 and Director of the Musée Delacroix since 2007. Christophe Leribault, 48, will take over on 1st November as head of the Petit Palais in Paris. The new (...)
The Petit Palais has progressively made it a specialty to reveal or recall artists who are unknown or forgotten, at least to the general public : just in the last few years, there was the luminous painter Joaquin Sorolla, the highly original (...)
In December 1913, a few months after he died, Fernand Pelez’ friends and family organized a retrospective of his work in his sumptuous workshop, at the foot of Montmartre : half a century of an artistic career, with its eclipses, was summed up in (...)
When the Petit Palais reopened in 2005, we had been especially critical of the building’s restoration, commenting on the missing gilded garlands which originally decorated the portico
