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The latest news in the History of Western Art from the Middle Ages to the 1930's
Recent Acquisitions by the Musée des Avelines in Saint-Cloud 13/08/2012
Several 19th century works have joined the Musée des Avelines since the last news item published here in August 2011. Two of them are by natives of the city, Edouard Dantan and Gaston La Touche, the others evoke Saint-Cloud which attracted not (...)
Donation of a Sculpture by Hendrick de Keyser to the Rijksmuseum 13/08/2012
Born in Utrecht in 1565 but having lived essentially in Amsterdam, the Dutch artist Hendrick de Keyser, the son of the painter Thomas de Keyser, is known as both a sculptor and an architect. One of his masterpieces is the mausoleum for (...)
A Special Study Exhibition on Auguste Morisot at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyon 13/08/2012
In 2007 and 2008, the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyon enriched its collections through acquisitions and donations with an ensemble of stained glass windows, drawings and watercolors by the painter and glassmaker Auguste Morisot, a native of this (...)
Confusion surrounding Raphael’s Portrait of a Young Man in the Czartoryski Collection 13/08/2012
In 2007 we had published an interview with Prince Czartoryski who directs the foundation of the same name and which manages the Czartoryski Museum in Cracow. The prince had explained how he attempted, at times successfully, to recover paintings (...)
A Painting by Jean-Baptiste Faudran Acquired by the Musée d’Histoire in Marseille 13/08/2012
At the exhibition La Peinture en Provence au XVIIe siècle organized in 1978 in this city, the artist Jean-Baptiste de Faudran was represented with two paintings, half of his known production at that time. There is very little information (...)
Flooding and Collapse Damage the Ecole des Beaux-Arts 30/07/2012
A burst water pipe can happen any time. When it happens on a Sunday night, at 2 am, mid-July, it is particularly unlucky and this is what took place in the basement of the Ecole nationale superieure des beaux-arts, causing part of the back of (...)
Acquisition of a Lima Painting by the Brooklyn Museum 30/07/2012
The profits from the sale of Vereshchagin’s Crucifixion have enabled the Brooklyn Museum to acquire last 21 June a new painting by an artist from the Lima school produced in the late 18th century, corresponding to the American colonial period. (...)
Georg Platzer’s The Artist’s Studio Acquired by the Cleveland Museum 30/07/2012
The Cleveland Museum of Art recently acquired The Artist’s Studio from the Colnaghi gallery in London, a painting on copper by the Austrian Johann Georg Platzer. The work illustrates the different stages in the creation of a painting. In the (...)
Frescoes Discovered in the Nativity Crypt in Prague 27/07/2012
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 (...)
A Petition to Save the Dutch Institute in Paris 26/07/2012
We announced it in our news item of 19/7/12 : the team at the Institut Néerlandais, now facing the total elimination of its funding as of 1st January 2015 (thus meaning purely and simply that it will disappear), has decided to actively oppose the (...)
Acquisition of a Version of the Procession of the Ligue by the Chateau de Pau 26/07/2012
The Chateau de Pau recently acquired a late 16th or early 17th century painting from the London art dealer Rafael Valls, illustrating one of the famous Ligue processions, a show of force by Catholics in the streets of Paris in 1590 and notably (...)
Aurelie Filippetti Filed an Application for Listing the Rue des Carmes 26/07/2012
Aurelie Filippetti, French Minister of Culture, has made the remarkable, and above all exemplary, decision to file an application requesting that the 18 buildings representing the southern front of the Rue des Carmes in Orleans be listed as a (...)
La Piscine Exhibits its Weerts 26/07/2012
Jean-Joseph Weerts, who was born in Roubaix of Belgian parents, remained loyal to his home town which had granted him his first scholarship allowing him to pursue his studies at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. In 1924, he donated about fifty (...)
Threats to the Institut Néerlandais (but not the Fondation Custodia) 20/07/2012
Times call for cutbacks as we all know, and the Netherlands is no exception : in order to lower expenses, the Dutch Foreign Affairs Ministry has decided to eliminate its funding for the Institut Néerlandais in Paris, as of 2015, meaning it will (...)
Death of Bénédicte Pradié Ottinger 20/07/2012
Chief curator for the Senlis museums, Bénédicte Pradié Ottinger passed away last 18 July after a long and painful illness. Born on 23 November 1961, she graduated from the Ecole du patrimoine in 1988 and started her career as a curator at the (...)
Publication of the Proceedings from the Colloquium on Frère Luc 19/07/2012
urely by accident or sometimes by choice, some artists (even second tier) frequently reappear in The Art Tribune headlines. This is the case for Claude François, known as Frère Luc, a 17th century French painter who has been featured in several (...)
Bibliography for Modern Era Sculpture Posted Online 18/07/2012
The INHA has recently posted a new database offering a bibliography for sculpture from the modern era, drawn solely from periodical listings. The exact name is "bibliographie critique" but the "critical" aspect is not clear to us as, unless we (...)
Death of Jean-François Méjanès 17/07/2012
Former chief curator for the Département des Arts Graphiques at the Louvre, which he had left in order to retire exactly two years ago, Jean-François Méjanès died suddenly last 4 July. Born on 13 July 1942, he had successfully passed the competitive (...)
Ordinary Vandalism in Amiens 17/07/2012
We would, alas, need to create a regular column, perhaps appearing even daily, denouncing the prevailing vandalism throughout France despite the "heritage days" held each year amid general euphoria as if everything were absolutely shipshape in (...)
The Musée National de la Renaissance Purchases an Enamel by Léonard Limosin 17/07/2012
At the Bergé-Saint-Laurent auction in 2009, the Musée de la Renaissance in Ecouen had acquired a large enamel by Léonard Limosin, Pâris, part of a series representing the ill-fated lovers, which joined another piece it already owned (identified as (...)
A Drawing by Pieter Lastman Acquired by the Rijksmuseum 17/07/2012
At the Christie’s London auction of old master drawings early July, the Rijksmuseum purchased a landscape drawing by Pieter Lastman, Rembrandt’s master, representing Nerva’s forum seen from the temple of Minerva dating from 1606 during his stay in (...)
The Gemäldegalerie in Berlin under Serious Threat 17/07/2012
Aix-en-Provence, where old master paintings are relegated to storage, is being emulated, but to a much more serious degree. The Gemäldegalerie in Berlin (a museum specialized in old masters) is now facing the threat of seeing a large part of its (...)
A Venus by John Nost the Elder, Acquired by the V&A 17/07/2012
The V&A recently acquired a sculpture by John Nost the Elder : a Venus Crouching , in marble, signed and dated 1702, inspired by the famous antique of Aphrodite Bathing of which several versions are known, notably at the Louvre, also at the (...)
Anne Dary Appointed Head of the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Rennes 17/07/2012
Anne Dary, currently chief curator at the Musées du Jura has been appointed to take over as head of the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Rennes starting 1st October 2012, replacing Francis Ribemont who has announced his retirement. Previously, Anne Dary (...)
A Charity Sculpted by Jan van Delen To Return to its Brussels Chapel 17/07/2012
Not too long ago, we had evoked here the magnificent Baroque chapel of the Tour et Taxis family in the Sablons church in Brussels. It is composed of two sections : one, the entrance, presents the Funerary monument of Claude-François Lamoral de (...)
Reattribution and Restoration of a Painting by Juan Bautista Maíno 16/07/2012
Juan Bautista Maíno, one of the first Spanish painters influenced by Caravaggio after a stay in Rome from 1605 to around 1610, has recently appeared in headlines several times, notably after a monographic exhibition at the Prado in 2009 and the (...)
Preposterous Theories Continue to Surface about Caravaggio... 06/07/2012
Following the discovery of the so-called remains of Caravaggio and their "85% probability", the recurring apparitions of paintings with incredibly imaginative attributions for each, once again, Caravaggio "experts" have made a stunning find : (...)
Bartholdi’s Statue of Liberty Returns to the Musée d’Orsay 06/07/2012
The Musée d’Orsay has finally recovered the Statue of Liberty. This establishment had been requesting the return of the Bartholdi sculpture for over twenty-five years. It is a reduced model of the famous Liberty Lighting the World (1886) (...)
The Stables of the Palais du Rhin no Longer for Sale 06/07/2012
We have often said here that although certain historical monuments belonging to the State did not necessarily have to remain property of the government (notably private residences), other listed buildings should continue to belong to everyone (...)
An Allegory of the Exile of the Duke of Choiseul for Waddesdon Manor 06/07/2012
Built by Ferdinand de Rothschild between 1877 and 1883, Waddesdon Manor and its collections were bequeathed to the National Trust in 1957 by James de Rothschild and still benefit from the family’s generosity thanks to a charitable trust. The (...)
July Auctions of Old Master and 19th Century Paintings and Drawings in London 03/07/2012
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 (...)
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 (...)
The Threats to Patronage Funding Apparently Removed according to Le Canard Enchainé 28/06/2012
In the column, La Mare aux Canards in Le Canard Enchainé dated 26 June 2012, readers were told that the reform planned by the French Ministry of Economy to cut tax deductions for patronage funding (see here) has apparently "failed". According to (...)
A Paul Baudry Painting Pre-empted by the Musée d’Orsay 26/06/2012
The Musée d’Orsay pre-empted a painting by Paul Baudry representing the Portrait of the Son of Countess Swieytowska as a Young Saint John at the Christie’s Paris auction on 21 June. This type of "historical" portrait, where the model is (...)
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 (...)
A Still-Life by Clara Peeters Acquired by the Mauritshuis 25/06/2012
The exhibition of Mauritshuis masterpieces currently being staged at the Gemeentemuseum during its closing for renovations , has now welcomed an additional piece in the form of a still-life by Clara Peeters. This work was acquired by the museum (...)
A Family Portrait by Eugène Giraud Acquired by the Musée de Picardie 23/06/2012
The Musée de Picardie has just purchased a family portrait by Eugène Giraud from Stéphane Grodée, an Amiens antique dealer ; it will join the collections on the first floor of this institution, currently closed for renovations until end 2013 (a (...)
UNESCO Exhibits Works Recovered by Italy 20/06/2012
UNESCO headquarters in Paris is currently holding an exhibition of about thirty art works recovered by the Italian carabinieri which have been returned to museums on the peninsula. The most important objects are undoubtedly the vases found in (...)
Two Armchairs from the Orleans Chancellery Pre-Empted by the State 18/06/2012
Following the Louvre’s pre-emption of a Bouchardon bust, the State also intervened during the auction organized by Aguttes last 11 June, thus acquiring a pair of bergères for 118,000 euros (without charges), thanks to the heritage fund at the (...)
Numerous Errors in the 3D Animations at the Château in Versailles 16/06/2012
Bernard Hasquenoph, from the very useful site Louvre pour tous, was the first one to see it : the 3D animations, which take up a considerable amount of space in the new history rooms at Versailles are partly false. Here are some of the most (...)
Aurélie Filippetti Shows Support for Business Patronage 15/06/2012
A few days ago, we wondered about the new French Cultural Minister’s position concerning the unprecedented attack by the Ministry of the Budget against business patronage, which would cut fiscal deductions by half. Aurélie Filippetti has since (...)
Philippe Bélaval Leaving the Direction des Patrimoines for the Centre des Monuments Nationaux 15/06/2012
Philippe Bélaval, the Directeur général des patrimoines at the French Ministry of Culture, handed in his resignation and, according to our sources, will become the president of the Centre des Monuments Nationaux as of next 1st July, succeeding (...)
ADMICAL Launches a Petition for Patronage 14/06/2012
We had passed on the information revealed by Vince Noce in Libération here on our site, concerning the French Budget Ministry’s wish to cut fiscal deductions for patronage by half. The news was confirmed today in the same newspaper by Aurélie (...)
Bertrand Delanoë Demands the Halle Freyssinet Be Unlisted 13/06/2012
How far can Bertrand Delanoë go in his determination to destroy Parisian heritage ? After entirely demolishing the Molitor pool, the change in presidential political majority and Cultural minister has now driven him to demand the unlisting of (...)
The Molitor Pool, an Art Deco Masterpiece, Has Disappeared 13/06/2012
We had mentioned it in our recent webcast L’Art sur un plateau : the Molitor swimming pool, an Art Deco masterpiece still in use in 1989, has been entirely destroyed to favor real estate development by the City of Paris, which owns the site and (...)
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 (...)
A Portrait Exhibition at the Musée Fragonard in Grasse 13/06/2012
The Musée Fragonard in Grasse, inaugurated last year, is offering, at the same time as the permanent presentation of works by Fragonard, Marguerite Gérard and Jean-Baptiste Mallet, a small temporary exhibition on the theme of "figures of men", (...)
Philostrate : A Collaborative Site Devoted to Anonymous Works or Unknown Whereabouts 12/06/2012
A group of art historians on Facebook, under the name of Connoisseur, is now posting art works, inviting other members to identify the artists. This new game brings together many curators, academics, dealers or simply amateurs of various (...)
A Strange Portrait for the National Portrait Gallery in London 12/06/2012
The National Portrait Gallery has just acquired a portrait dated 1792 representing a transvestite. This is the famous Charles de Beaumont, knight of Eon (1728-1810), who led a brilliant military and diplomatic career. He worked notably for (...)
The Treasure of Pouilly-sur-Meuse Exhibited at Ecouen 12/06/2012
In late 2009, the Musée Lorrain in Nancy was fortunate enough to add an exceptional ensemble of Renaissance silver discovered by accident in Pouilly-sur-Meuse in 2006 to its collections, just a few days before it was to be dispersed at Sotheby’s (...)
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