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The latest news in the History of Western Art from the Middle Ages to the 1930's
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 (...)
Isabelle Lemesle Resigns from the Centre des Monuments Nationaux 07/06/2012
President of the Centre des Monuments Nationaux since 2008 - and re-appointed in 2011 - Isabelle Lemesle has just resigned from her position. In fact, there is no doubt in anyone’s mind that this was imposed on her due to the political change in (...)
Renewed Success of Art History Festival 07/06/2012
The second edition of the Festival de l’histoire de l’art held at Fontainebleau on 1st, 2 and 3 June proved once again to be a huge success, drawing large crowds. We had described last year’s in detail (see here) and we do not need to repeat at (...)
The Mayor of Lens Censures The Art Tribune 06/06/2012
We had already been boycotted by a Minister from the political right, Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres, who prevented us from participating in the press conferences at the French Ministry of Culture, and been censured by the president of a public (...)
A Boudin Work Donated to Quimper 04/06/2012
The Association des Amis du musée des Beaux-Arts in Quimper has donated a painting by Eugène Boudin entitled A Wedding in Quimper, which sold for 38,080€ (including charges) at auction on 10 December 2011 in Brest at Thierry-Lannon’s. It had (...)
Launch of the Getty Research Portal 04/06/2012
The Getty Research Institute is launching an extraordinary website with the help of many other institutions. This new platform is called the Getty Research Portal, providing easy access to thousands of art history texts which can either be read (...)
A Landscape by Jacob Savery for the Broelmuseum 04/06/2012
The Broelmuseum recently acquired a small landscape by the miniaturist painter and draughtsman Jacob Savery, born in Courtrai, Belgium. This charming View of a City with a Bridge which joins a later work by the artist already at the same museum, (...)
The Hornstein Donation to Montreal (1) 30/05/2012
A few weeks ago we had announced the exceptional donation made by Michal and Renata Hornstein of their collection of old master paintings to the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Montreal, and the upcoming construction of a new wing to house them. Since (...)
Several Important Donations by Mrs. Charles Wrightsman to the Metropolitan Museum 29/05/2012
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 (...)
An early 16th century Virgin with Child Acquired by the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Tours 29/05/2012
On 6 April 2011, about a year before acquiring the Suvée painting mentioned in the preceding news item, the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Tours had purchased an alabaster Virgin with Child , at a Sotheby’s Paris auction for 84,750€ (including charges) (...)
A Portrait by Suvée at the Prison Saint-Lazare Acquired by Tours 29/05/2012
The Musée des Beaux-Arts in Tours acquired a Portrait of a Man by Joseph-Benoît Suvée last 10 May at a Piasa auction in Paris for 24,083€ (including charges). Sophie Join-Lambert, recently appointed as head of this establishment, is in fact the (...)
The LACMA Purchases a Mysterious Painting 29/05/2012
The LACMA has just acquired, at Etienne Bréton’s (SHAC) in Paris, a superb paintingwhich is very mysterious as, for the moment, it remains anonymous. Adding to the intrigue, the school has not been determined and even the subject is not really (...)
Exhibition Poussin et Moïse at the Mobilier National : A Cartoon for La Manne Recovered 28/05/2012
After Rome and Bordeaux (see article in French), it is now Paris’ turn to welcome the tapestry series The Story of Moses after eight paintings by Poussin and two by Le Brun, now on display to the public at the Galerie des Gobelins. The visit (...)
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A Renaissance Sculpture and a Barbizon Painting Acquired by the Huntington Library 28/05/2012
Henry Edwards Huntington (1850-1927) was a railroad magnate and inveterate collector mostly of books, but also paintings, whose collection was opened to the public in 1927. The Huntington Library, in California, today holds a beautiful ensemble (...)
Recent Acquisitions at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam 28/05/2012
This Dutch museum had not acquired a Van Gogh work in the last five years but last 7 February, it finally purchased a gouache watercolor entitled The Silver Willow at Christie’s London for £1,273,250 (including charges). Executed on 27 July 1882 (...)
Devastating Earthquake in Emilia, Italy 25/05/2012
The earthquake which took place in Emilia on the night of Saturday the 19th, early morning of Sunday the 20th of May, followed by several aftershocks, unfortunately resulted in the death of several victims as well as the destruction or severe (...)
Christiane Naffah-Bayle Appointed Director of the Mobilier National 25/05/2012
The exhibition which recently opened at the Galerie des Gobelins, in its Parisian version, Poussin et l’histoire de Moïse is accompanied by a momentous event for the history of this institution with the retirement of Arnauld Brejon de Lavergnée, (...)
A Study by Noël Coypel from the Thuillier Collection Acquired by Versailles 25/05/2012
The contents of the Jacques Thuillier collection were auctioned off to either the Musée départemental Georges de La Tour or the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Nancy but one work was missing : a very beautiful study by Noël Coypel for the ceiling of the (...)
Aurélie Filippetti Appointed French Minister of Culture 22/05/2012
It comes as no surprise : Aurélie Filippetti has been appointed as the French Minister of Culture and Communications in the first government of Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault, under the newly elected President François Hollande. At only 38, she (...)
Guillaume Ambroise, Future Director of the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Quimper 16/05/2012
With the current director, André Cariou, now leaving for retirement, the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Quimper has appointed Guillaume Ambroise to head the institution as of September 1st. Guillaume Ambroise, formerly director of the Musée des Beaux-Arts (...)
A Still-life by Bazille for the Musée Fabre 16/05/2012
The Musée Fabre has just acquired The Scoter by Frédéric Bazille, sold at auction for $242,500 at Sotheby’s New York last 3rd May. Having died at the age of only 28, this artist from Montpellier painted about sixty works, many residing at the Musée (...)
A native of Nantes, Edgard Maxence was recently highlighted in his hometown and in Douai in a retrospective underscoring the importance of portraits in his work. Catherine Méneu, in her review published on the French site, considered that (...)
A Portrait of a Young Woman by Thomas Lawrence Joins the National Gallery in London 15/05/2012
Thanks to acceptance in lieu, the National Gallery in London has enriched its collections with a portrait of a young woman by Thomas Lawrence. This canvas, which represents Emily Lamb, was commissioned from the artist in 1803 by her father, (...)
Vandalism of the Roman Amphitheater in Frejus : The Results 14/05/2012
Although the subject theoretically falls outside the chronological range for The Art Tribune, we had expressed our indignation here concerning the treatment of the Roman amphitheater in Fréjus. Strangely enough, the matter did not raise much of (...)
Two Works from Latin America (Mexico and Puerto Rico) Acquired by the Brooklyn Museum 14/05/2012
The Brooklyn Museum succeeded in acquiring a Mexican screen and a Puerto Rican painting, on 19 April from Salvart Limited in London after deaccessioning a work in its collection. The funds for these acquisitions came from the sale of The (...)
The Musée Fabre Purchases a Masterpiece by Lionello Spada 14/05/2012
At TEFAF 2011, the Canesso Gallery had exhibited a canvas by Lionello Spada representing a Lamentation of Christ Dead which we had illustrated in an article devoted to this trade fair, saying it was one of the most beautiful paintings on view (...)
The Paintings Stolen from the Musée Fesch Now Recovered 07/05/2012
The four paintings which had been stolen from the Musée Fesch in Ajaccio, Corsica last February 2011 were recovered on the evening of 4th May 2012 in a city parking lot, after the investigating magistrate was notified that the works had been left (...)
A Francesco Maffei Bequeathed to the Metropolitan Museum 07/05/2012
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 (...)
A Painting and a Drawing by Jean Restout Donated to the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Rennes 02/05/2012
With part of their drawing collection now showing at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Rennes, Christian and Isabelle Adrien have donated a painting representing Christ in the Garden of Olives and a drawing of a Head of Christ, both by Jean Restout, to (...)
Two Stained-glass Windows Pre-empted by the Musée de l’Oeuvre Notre-Dame in Strasbourg 02/05/2012
Two Gothic stained-glass windows were pre-empted by the Musée de l’Oeuvre Notre-Dame at the Sotheby’s auction in Paris on 20 April. Each was estimated at 50,000 to 70,000€ : Judas’ Kiss (ill. 1) sold for 156,750€ and The Crucifixion for 228,750€. The (...)
A Painting in the Tours Cathedral Claimed by the Sacristan 02/05/2012
The story we are about to tell is hard to believe : in 2006, the sacristan of the Tours cathedral, following a request made by the chief architect for historical monuments, was cleaning up a room on the upper floor of the south tower, to help (...)
The Metropolitan Acquires a Carlo Francesco Nuvolone and a Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg 25/04/2012
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 (...)
Acquisition of a Bartolomé Pérez de la Dehesa Painting by the Cleveland Museum 25/04/2012
The Cleveland museum has recently acquired a Virgin with Child painted on copper by Bartolomé Pérez de la Dehesa, disciple then son-in-law of Juan Arellano, from the Galerie Terrades in Paris. The artist is known for his flowers rather than his (...)
Electoral Reserve Period : DRAC Officials Silenced by a Legally Unfounded Order 23/04/2012
With several investigations related to cultural heritage and museums currently underway, we find that all of the questions we have addressed to Directeurs Regionaux des Affaires Culturelles or their deputies are mysteriously answered in the same (...)
A Painting by Jakob Philipp Hackert Acquired by Dresden 18/04/2012
After training in Berlin, then spending time in Sweden and France where he frequented Jean-Georges Wille’s studio, the landscapist Jakob Philipp Hackert traveled to Italy in 1768 where he was painter to the King of Naples, Ferdinand IV from 1786 (...)
The Golden Age of Danish Painting at the Galerie Jean-François Heim 18/04/2012
The Galerie Jean-François Heim is presenting an exhibition of painters from the Danish Golden Age, often featured over the last few years there and which runs until 11 May. This offering is in perfect symmetry with the exhibition currently on (...)
The Jourdan-Barry Collection to be Auctioned at Sotheby’s 17/04/2012
A magnificent ensemble of silversmith pieces, assembled by Raymond Jourdan-Barry, then his son Pierre, will be dispersed at auction on Wednesday 18 April at Sotheby’s Paris. The 182 lots, ranging from the 16th to the 18th centuries, are largely (...)
Swedish Silver Objects Acquired by the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm 17/04/2012
The Nationalmuseum recently purchased a clock, a pair of candlesticks and two salt shakers, all in silver, produced in the 19th century in Möllenborg’s studio. Gustaf Möllenborg (1796-1851) started out as an apprentice with a silversmith in Växjö, (...)
A Watercolor by William Wyld Acquired by the Musée Borda in Dax 16/04/2012
We had already mentioned several museum acquisitions during the Fabius auction at Sotheby’s on 26 and 27 October 2011. Another French museum was able to make a purchase which though modest nevertheless proves that despite a limited budget it is (...)
Two Works by Louis-Nicolas Lemasle Acquired by the Musée Antoine Lécuyer 13/04/2012
The heading " Research Announcements" is open to both students or dissertation candidates working on a subject as well as art historians preparing a book or even museums organizing an exhibition. These ads - which are free - are often extremely (...)
Hispanic Art History Journals on Internet (2) 10/04/2012
Following our first news item published two months ago, we continue our review of Spanish art history journals available on Internet. Boletín del Seminario de Estudios de Arte y Arqueología : published by the Universidad de Valladolid, this (...)
The Façade of the Hôtel Lambert Overwhelmed by Reconstituted Pots à Feu 07/04/2012
Six months ago we expressed our concern for the lack of communication now surrounding the restoration project at the Hôtel Lambert, contradicting the promises made by the owner of increasing access to journalists. We are perhaps not the only (...)
The Tribulations of the Jacques Thuillier Donation to the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Nancy 05/04/2012
Jacques Thuillier’s generosity towards the museums in Lorraine is well known. The anonymous character of the donations to the Musée départemental in Vic-sur-Seille and the Beaux-Arts in Nancy was very relative, as almost everyone was perfectly (...)
Acquisitions by the Musée Georges de La Tour at the Jacques Thuillier Auction 05/04/2012
We had pointed it out at the same time as the acquisition of a Sébastien Bourdon painting by Montpellier at the Artcurial auction of the Thuillier collection : the Musée départemental Georges de La Tour in Vic-sur-Seille has added five more works (...)
Two Small Portraits by Jan de Bray Acquired by the Fondation Custodia 04/04/2012
These two companion portraits, of a young man and a young woman, by Jan de Bray hung on the Bob Haboldt stand at the Maastricht Fair a few weeks ago. They have now entered the collection of the Fondation Custodia in Paris, and are being (...)
Fifteen Pre-emptions for the Musée de Cahors at the Henri Martin Auction 03/04/2012
As we had announced a few days ago , the Musée Henri Martin in Cahors was particularly active at the auction of the Paul Riff collection in Rennes on Sunday, 1st April. The establishment in fact pre-empted no less than 15 lots, resulting in a (...)
Other Drawing Exhibitions Still in Paris 03/04/2012
Although the Salon du Dessin closed its doors on 2 April, several galleries which organized hangs at the same time are still presenting exhibitions for a few days. Three of them offer accompanying catalogues : these are at Nicolas Schwed’s, (...)
An Ary Scheffer Watercolor Donated to the Musée Bartholdi in Colmar 02/04/2012
The Musée Bartholdi has just received a donation by the Société des amis in the form of a watercolor by Ary Scheffer, acquired from the de Bayser gallery, representing Saint Augustine and Saint Monica. This purchase was made because the author of (...)
The Rijksmuseum Purchases a Triqueti Ewer 30/03/2012
In our review of the Maastricht fair, we pointed out a superbe bronze ewer by Henri de Triqueti on the Yates-Trebosc-van Lelyveld stand. It has now been purchased by the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. A wealthy artist, Henri de Triqueti, unlike many (...)
A Sébastien Bourdon from the Jacques Thuillier Collection Acquired by Montpellier 29/03/2012
Of all the 17th century painted décors in Paris now disappeared, commissioned from Sébastien Bourdon in 1662 for the Hôtel de Bretonvilliers at the east end of the Ile Saint Louis, but destroyed along with the building housing it in 1840, this is (...)
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