Mercredi 19 juin 2013
Last update on 5/06/2013
Last update on 5/06/2013
The latest news in the History of Western Art from the Middle Ages to the 1930's
We had recounted the story of this amazing discovery here : a presumed portrait by Rembrandt, on copper, which appeared on the auction block in England in October 2007 with the attribution, "follower of Rembrandt", had sold for 2.2 million (...)
A masterpiece is above all an object which undergoes the wear and tear of time, the changes in taste and scholarly findings. The Musée Cognac-Jay is inviting visitors to rediscover their collections by taking a close look at the patina of time. (...)
Two monographic sites devoted to two of Europe's greatest painters, Goya and Rembrandt, were recently posted almost simultaneously (on 17 and 19 September). They are slightly similar in design and scope. The Rembrandt Database : the "Rembrandt (...)
Seventeenth century frescoes were discovered in 2011 in the crypt of the church of the Nativity in the sanctuary of Our Lady of Loretto in Prague by the curators Petr Basta and Marketa Bastova. The news was posted by the Codart website to mark (...)
Last July 2011 Sotheby's London offered more interesting works at auction than Christie's. This year, the second is undeniably more attractive than its leading competitor thanks to an extraordinary ensemble of Dutch paintings from the Pieter and (...)
The Mauritshuis had already been renovated about twenty-five years ago and we still remember how, in 1986, the Grand Palais had welcomed an exhibition of 57 of its masterpieces (De Rembrandt à Vermeer). Having become too cramped in its historic (...)
The museum in Leiden, Rembrandt’s hometown, has just acquired a panel by this artist, The Eyeglass Vendor, painted when he was 17, that is, one of the very first paintings which can be attributed to the master. This is an allegory of (...)
Wednesday afternoons, from 2 to 5:30 only, room A at the National Gallery in London is open to the public. There are not many visitors and, yet this gallery in fact represents a major portion of the museum’s works in storage holding about 700 (...)
Exhibiting, publishing, restoring and acquiring are a museum’s basic missions. Cognac-Jay accomplishes them all. In another article, we discuss the exhibition on Tivoli and the accompanying publication. Here, we will just mention a very recent (...)
The Musée Condé is offering a closer look at its collection of Dutch paintings and drawings for its autumn show. While the latter were entirely catalogued nine years ago, the paintings had not all been published yet. This has now been completed by (...)
In October 2007, we pointed out the appearance, in a small British auction house, of a portrait representing Rembrandt but ascribed to one of his “followers”,
It is not unusual for an anonymous work to be sold far over its original estimate. We have given some examples on
