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The latest news in the History of Western Art from the Middle Ages to the 1930's
The Drawings and Engravings from the ENSBA Exhibited in Rouen 27/11/2011
The hang from the Cabinet Jean Bonna at the Ecole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts highlighting Parmigianino’s drawings and engravings is currently on exhibition at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Rouen where we were able to see it after having (...)
Stockholm’s Nationalmuseum Adds a Nicolas Regnier Painting to its Collections 23/11/2011
The Nicolas Regnier painting recently acquired by the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm represents a woman holding what looks like a lit tobacco wad under a young man’s nose ; she invites us to take in the scene while warning us to remain silent. This (...)
Jacob’s Dream by Gioacchino Assereto Acquired by Grenoble 22/11/2011
In 2005, Grenoble acquired a 17th century Neapolitan Saint Cecilia, Martyr, whose attribution has not been acknowledged but which is apparently ascribed to Francesco Guarino. Quite recently, the museum made an addition to its collections by (...)
Two New Paintings for the Scottish National Gallery 22/11/2011
The Scottish National Gallery recently proceeded to fill a gap in their collections by acquiring, last October, a work by Waller Hugh Paton (1828-1895), famous in his native Scotland for his landscape paintings. Until now, the museum held only a (...)
Mary Cassatt Joins the Fort Worth Museum 15/11/2011
Strangely, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art which, as the name says, holds an extensive collection of 19th and 20th century American paintings, did not own a single work by Mary Cassatt before now. This is no longer the case. Last 21 (...)
Boilly and Longhi : Some Genre Scenes for the Getty Museum 14/11/2011
The very beautiful exhibition on Louis-Léopold Boilly which just opened at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Lille and for which we will soon publish a review comes at almost the same time as the recent acquisition of a painting and a drawing by the (...)
A Terracotta Group by Clodion Acquired by the Ashmolean Museum 14/11/2011
A terracotta group by Clodion representing Christ on the Cross with Saint John and the Virgin, had been on loan to the Ashmolean Museum since 2003. The Oxford institution has now purchased it, through Gurr Johns Ltd., for the sum of 234,000£ (...)
Marie Antoinette’s Bathroom Restored at Versailles 13/11/2011
Let us begin in a positive way. Marie-Antoinette’s bathroom (La Pièce des Bains de Marie-Antoinette), located on the ground floor, at the left as you enter the vestibule from the marble courtyard, had been restored in 1984. Strangely enough, this (...)
Three More Portraits by Benjamin-Constant at the Musée des Augustins 11/11/2011
The Musée des Augustins owns an extensive group of works by Benjamin-Constant, a Parisian artist who went to Toulouse to study art. The highlight of this collection is the famous Mehmet II Entering Constantinople in 1453, presented at the Salon (...)
A New Director at the Worcester Art Museum 10/11/2011
Bonn, Paris, St. Louis (Missouri)... Matthias Waschek has finally settled down at the Worcester Art Museum. After spending eight years as head of the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, he will officially take over the city’s art museum on 16 (...)
The painting, Christ Carrying the Cross, now claimed by the French government from the London art dealer, Mark Weiss, is currently being held on the premises of the Service des musées de France. Talks are underway with the gallery, whose good (...)
The Imbroglio Concerning Nicolas Tournier’s Christ Carrying the Cross 07/11/2011
Libération today revealed an affair about which we ourselves had been preparing an article in the last few days. A painting by Nicolas Tournier currently being shown by Mark Weiss at the Salon Paris, which had been presented at two Maastricht (...)
A Scholarly Exhibition in Dijon on Gustave Moreau’s Song of Songs 02/11/2011
The Musée des Beaux-Arts in Dijon, currently undergoing an extension, is nonetheless partially open to the public and is now offering a scholarly exhibition devoted to one of the establishment’s masterpieces, The Song of Songs by Gustave Moreau. (...)
Nicolas Bourriaud Appointed as Director of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts 31/10/2011
The Minister of Culture, Frédéric Mitterand, has proposed the name of Nicolas Bourriaud as Director of the Ecole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts to the President of the Republic. This appointment, although not yet official, can thus be (...)
The Resurrection of Lazarus by Jean Le Clerc Acquired by the Louvre 29/10/2011
Following its appearance at an auction on 10 July 1987 at Christie’s London, then entering a private collection in New York, The Resurrection of Lazarus by Jean Le Clerc, acquired by the Louvre this year from the art dealer Richard Feigen, was (...)
Acquisition, Restorations, Hangs : News of Neo-Classical (and Romantic) Holdings at the Louvre 28/10/2011
In 2011 the Louvre acquired a magnificent work by Pierre-Paul Prud’hon from the Roman gallery of Carlo Virgilio : a representation of the monument to Clement XIV executed by Canova between 1783 and 1787 for the basilica of the Saint Apostles. (...)
A New Director Appointed at the Wallace Collection 27/10/2011
Last 24 October marked the official retirement of Rosalind Savill who handed over the reins as head of the Wallace Collection to Christoph Vogtherr, the curator for pre-1800 works at this museum since 2007 and whose appointment had been known (...)
A Painting and Two Sculptures by Carpeaux Acquired by Valenciennes at the Fabius Auction 27/10/2011
The Musée des Beaux-Arts in Valenciennes purchased, without preemptions, three works by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux at the Fabius auction, thus consolidating its already extensive holdings of the artist. The most important of these purchases is a (...)
Two Medici Vases Acquired by the Metropolitan Museum at the Fabius Auction 26/10/2011
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 (...)
Latest Acquisitions by the Clark Institute 26/10/2011
Pursuing a dynamic acquisitions policy over the last four years, the Clark Institute has enriched its collections with art objects, sculptures, drawings and paintings. First off, in ceramics, a cup and saucer in hard-paste porcelain (acquired (...)
An Update on the Frick Collection 26/10/2011
An appointment, acquisitions, a restoration, publications... Events at the Frick Collection have moved briskly of late. The foremost of these is the new face of this prestigious establishment, Ian Wardropper, appointed director of the Frick (...)
Two paintings by Maximilien Luce donated to the Musée des Impressionistes 19/08/2011
Created in early 2009 to replace the Musée d’Art Américain and housed in the same locale, the Musée des Impressionnismes was designed more as an exhibition space, the same as the new one, rather than a traditional museum. Although this remains its (...)
A Painting by Agostino Brunias for the Brooklyn Museum 11/08/2011
The West Indies in the 18th century seen by Agostino Brunias have now joined the many other cultures on view at the Brooklyn Museum. Purchased from the London gallery, Robilant + Voena, a painting by the artist representing Three Creole Women (...)
Acquisition of a painting by Jan Steen at the Mauritshuis 27/05/2011
The collection of fourteen paintings by the earthy Jan Steen has now grown to fifteen at the Mauritshuis with the addition of Moses Trampling Pharaoh’s Crown. Owned by a private collector, the canvas had been on deposit at the museum between 2008 (...)
Latest acquisitions at the Musée Crozatier 27/05/2011
Well known as a universal museum, the Musée Crozatier has enriched its collections over the past few years with silver or bronze pieces, sculptures and paintings by artists from the region or who worked there most of their lives. The first is (...)
A pastel portrait of the Comtesse d’Artois , by Joseph Boze, acquired by Versailles 25/05/2011
On 4th May, Versailles preempted a painting by François-Hubert Drouais (see news item of 6/5/11) at Drouot. A few weeks earlier, at Sotheby’s London, the national museum had acquired another portrait, in pastel this time, representing the (...)
Serres d’Auteuil : the associations preparing their fight 20/05/2011
With the onset of the tennis tournament at Roland-Garros, associations have been preparing to battle the vandalism sure to the gardens at the Serres d’Auteuil (see our previous articles). The Collectif de Défense Auteuil les Princes (CDAP), which (...)
Musées de Senlis : an acquisition and an internet website 18/05/2011
The Musée d’Art et d’Archélogie in Senlis has purchased the Portrait of a Young Boy by Thomas Couture, signed and dated 1846 (ill.), from the Scala gallery in Paris.
A silver bowl from the late 12th century to be auctioned at Sotheby’s Paris 14/05/2011
An exceptional object will come up for auction at Sotheby’s Paris on 17 May. This bowl (hanap), in hand-tooled silver which can be dated back to around 1180 is a unique piece. There are no private collections or museums holding such an old (...)
The first Art History Festival will be held in Fontainebleau from 27 to 29 May 13/05/2011
Frédéric Mitterand has taken an excellent initiative by creating an annual event devoted to art history, the Festival de l’histoire de l’art which will be held for the first time in Fontainebleau from Friday 27 to Sunday 29 May 2011. A different (...)
The Carraci Gallery at the Palazzo Farnese to be restored 13/05/2011
In 1994, the mural paintings in the Carraci Gallery at the Palazzo Farnese a masterpiece of Western art, had undergone minor restoration in order to consolidate the ceiling. The work, however, had not been completed due to lack of funds as well (...)
James Cuno appointed as head of the J. Paul Getty Trust 13/05/2011
The Board of Trustees of the J. Paul Getty Trust, which manages the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Getty Research Institute, the Getty Foundation and the Getty Conservation Institute, announced it had appointed James Cuno as President and Chief (...)
Exhibition on the Christ figure at the Mendes Gallery 11/05/2011
The Mendes Gallery is presenting an exhibition along with a catalogue devoted exclusively to a single iconographic theme, the Christ figure, with some particularly interesting works for art historians, both for their quality as well as for the (...)
Versailles preempts a portrait of Mme du Barry by Francois-Hubert Drouais 07/05/2011
At the Boisgirard auction on 4 May at the Hotel Drouot, the chateau of Versailles preempted a Portrait of Mme du Barry as Flora painted by Francois-Hubert Drouais, for the amount of 98.000 euros (without (...)
Hotel de la Marine : tenders for projects closed 06/05/2011
A further blow has been dealt to the tandem of Alexandre Allard and Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres, but it promises to be excellent news for heritage supporters who wish to see the Hotel de la Marine remain in the public domain : the tenders for (...)
Recent acquisitions at the Metropolitan Museum 02/05/2011
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 (...)
The INHA databases now combined but with mixed results 30/04/2011
The INHA has posted a new system for its databases, named AGORHA (Acces global et organise aux resources en histoire de l’art) with the purpose of offering only one point of entry and allowing users to search for a term on all the databases at (...)
Denis Mahon and Luciano Bellosi pass away 30/04/2011
A larger than life figure in the world of art history has left us at the age of 100. Denis Mahon passed away last Wednesday, 27 April at his home in London. A major specialist of Italian painting, Denis Mahon was famous both as a collector and (...)
Three days to see an exhibition of late 17th century French paintings 27/04/2011
Art lovers have only three days, from Wednesday 27 to Friday 29, to view twenty-five paintings from the late 17th century at the Didier Aaron Gallery. This very short exhibition has been organized to coincide with the publication, by Editions (...)
The Issenheim altarpiece to be restored 24/04/2011
The Issenheim altarpiece is one of the most famous museum works in France, in itself a symbol of the Musée Unterlinden in Colmar, also known for its rich collections of Germanic art from the Middle Ages and (...)
The Fédération Française des Sociétés des Amis de Musées against the ban on taking pictures 22/04/2011
The Fédération Française des Sociétés d’Amis de Musées, which in fact represents most of the Friends of Museums associations voted unanimously during its annual meeting which took place in Aix-en Provence on 2 April, to approve the following motion (...)
Several drawing exhibitions in Paris 14/04/2011
Thanks to the Salon du Dessin, the number of events taking place elsewhere in the city at the same time continues to grow every year, extending the list of must-sees for visitors. 2011 was no different with even more exhibitions, from the (...)
The Musée Fragonard opens in Grasse 11/04/2011
Particularly fascinated by the 18th century, Jean-François Costa, the grandson of the founder of Fragonard Perfumes in Grasse today managed by his daughters, has assembled a remarkable collection of paintings dominated by the figures of (...)
Donation of a Virgin with Child by Bartolomeo Vivarini to the Louvre 10/04/2011
On Friday 8 April, during the inauguration of the Musée Fragonard in Grasse, which houses part of the Jean-François Costa collection, this patron donated a painting by Bartolomeo Vivarini representing The Virgin with Child to the (...)
The church of San Clemente in Casauria restored thanks to the World Monument Fund 07/04/2011
Two years ago a violent earthquake shook the Italian city of L’Aquila. The ensuing destruction was not limited to only that area but also touched many of the surrounding villages and monuments in the Abruzzi region, including the Romanic church (...)
More giant billboards abound on the Seine 03/04/2011
We had predicted it, and it did not take long to happen. After Orsay where it all started, the Louvre followed suit shortly after and the Conciergerie is now covered in turn by giant advertising. The last one, managed by the Centre des (...)
The Salon du Dessin, 2011 02/04/2011
More so than ever, Paris once again became the world capital of drawings for a few days. This extraordinary success, which we hope will be repeated in November with old master paintings, is due of course to the Salon which opened its doors on (...)
Several drawing auctions in Paris 30/03/2011
Among the different auctions of drawings in Paris over a two-week period, Artcurial’s definitely stood out for the extensive number of important sheets on offer. Two collections were sold, one of old masters assembled by a collector who wishes (...)
Pietro da Cortona, Ciro Ferri and Louis de Boullogne displayed at the Louvre 27/03/2011
In the last few years, the Département des Arts Graphiques at the Louvre has been organizing monograph exhibitions accompanied by small catalogues. This collection would benefit from developing this formula further and imposing fewer (...)
Marie Antoinette’s desk by Jean-Henri Riesener returns to Versailles 22/03/2011
Despite current economic hardships which tend to see a decrease in patronage, the château of Versailles has just enriched its collection with a major acquisition : the desk which Marie Antoinette had commissioned from Riesener in (...)
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