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The latest news in the History of Western Art from the Middle Ages to the 1930's
Béatrix Saule likely replacement for Pierre Arizzoli-Clémentel as director of Versailles 26/07/2009
As Pierre Arizzoli-Clémentel, directeur général de l’Etablissement public du musée et du domaine national de Versailles, is retiring the Minister of Culture and Communication has appointed Béatrix Saule, conservateur général du patrimoine, the (...)
Publication of issue n° 10 of the online journal In Situ 23/07/2009
The fear was that after the offices of the Inventaire général were scattered the journal In Situ, which appears only online, would stop publishing.
“Acceptance in Lieu” of a Cézanne for Orsay 23/07/2009
While patronage for national treasures seems to be on the wane – we hope only temporarily due to current economic conditions – Acceptance in Lieu is still one of the ways French museums continue to acquire certain works which would otherwise be (...)
Brazilian Art History Journal now online 17/07/2009
17/5/09 – Internet – Revista de Historia da Arte – The Brazilian art history journal, Revista de Historia da Arte e Arqueologia, published by the Centre for History of Art and Archeology of the Universidade Estadual de Campina under the (...)
The Annunciation by Jacques Blanchard acquired by the Musée de Vic-sur-Seille 17/07/2009
The Musée de Vic-sur-Seille purchases 17th century French paintings on a regular basis. Its most recent acquisition, an unpublished Annunciation by Jacques Blanchard
The Cathedral in Chartres recovers its original colour 13/07/2009
Of all the French cathedrals, Chartres is no doubt one whose original décor, be it the sculptures or stained-glass windows, is the best preserved. Less known, however, is that 80% of the 13th century plaster has survived under the built-up dirt (...)
A painting by de La Hyre acquired by the Musée de l’Armée 13/07/2009
An important painting by Laurent de La Hyre reappeared in an auction at Sotheby’s Paris last 24 June.
Bernard Notari dismissed at Fontainebleau to make room for Jean-François Hébert 13/07/2009
Some remember how the chief curator for the Musée de Fontainebleau, Amaury Lefébure, had been removed from office in order to appoint Bernard Notari, former adviser to the then Minister of Culture Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres. Although we had (...)
The Museum in Arras closes for six months to show Napoleon and Egypt 13/07/2009
Would you like to see the Cathedral’s Treasure ? Would you like to see Laurent de La Hyre ?
A Titian for the Ashmolean Museum 10/07/2009
Thanks to an Acceptance in Lieu and the sum of 180,000£ provided by The Art Fund, the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford has just enriched its collections with a painting by Titian, Love Triumphs over (...)
Frédéric Mitterrand appointed Minister of Culture 26/06/2009
The news was unexpected and, for once, rather encouraging. The President of the French Republic has appointed Frédéric Mitterrand as Minister of Culture, thus ending his presence in Rome as director of the Villa Medicis after one (...)
Two inaugurations in Amsterdam : former City Hall restored and Hermitage Museum 26/06/2009
The Dutch capital held two inaugurations last week. One was for the interior restoration of a major historical monument, the former City Hall, known as the Palais-Royal since the reign of Louis (...)
Restoration of the cycle of the Life of Christ by Laurent Pécheux at the Collégiale de Dole 26/06/2009
Between 1762 and 1781, Laurent Pécheux produced an ensemble of twelve paintings for the collegiate church in Dole. This cycle, representing the life of Christ, was still in place in the nave and the (...)
The Cupid attributed to Michelangelo deposited at the Metropolitan Museum 23/06/2009
he cultural services of the French Embassy in the United States are located on 5th Avenue, not far from the Metropolitan Museum and the Frick Collection.
The Ministry of Culture approves the project for the Hôtel Lambert 23/06/2009
Christine Albanel stated in a press release that she had : “decided to follow the advice of the national commission for historical monuments of last 9 March and authorized, according to the heritage code, the project for the Hôtel Lambert, a (...)
The restoration of the church Notre-Dame de Calais has finally started 15/06/2009
A little over five years ago, we had written an article, on the church of Notre-Dame in Calais, whose choir and Baroque altarpiece, badly damaged by the bombings of WWII, had awaited sixty years for a (...)
Early works by Gustave Moreau join Orsay and Dijon 15/06/2009
Orsay has just bought a painting by Gustave Moreau representing Sixtus the Fifth’s Childhood from Hubert Duchemin (Eric Turquin gallery).
Long sought by the Louvre, now acquired by the Louvre Abou Dhabi 15/06/2009
In the list of acquired works announced by the agency France-Muséums for Abou Dhabi, we published those corresponding only to the historical time limits covered the The Art Tribune
A fragment of Charles V’s tomb acquired by the Louvre 15/06/2009
The tomb of Charles V and Jeanne de Bourbon in Saint Denis was destroyed in 1793 and its layout is only known today thanks to the watercolour by Gaignières
Demolition of the Hôtel Reichenbach 15/06/2009
Another Parisian landmark will soon disappear. The Hôtel Reichenbach in the 16th arrondissement, a showcase of Art Déco by the architect Jean-Charles Moreux, with some of its furniture held at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, is undergoing (...)
First acquisitions by the Louvre-Abu Dhabi 12/06/2009
The Louvre-Abu Dhabi acquisitions started at the Bergé auction as we had been the first to announce. Nineteen objects in all have been purchased since then and are now on exhibition in Abu (...)
Saint Peter’s Denial by the Le Nain brothers joins the Louvre 04/06/2009
We have already mentioned Saint Peter’s Denial by the Le Nain brothers several times and its ongoing acquisition by the Louvre. Until now we only had a poor black and white photograph dating from its rediscovery at an auction in eastern (...)
The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts acquires a William Bouguereau 04/06/2009
William Bouguereau is one of the best known and appreciated French “academic” painters in the United States. He also draws some of the sharpest criticism from partisans of a strictly modernist view of art (...)
Inauguration of the « Musée Magritte » in Brussels 29/05/2009
Before talking about the Musée Magritte which is opening inside the complex of the Musées Royaux de Bruxelles on 2 June, we first have to bring up its marketing aspect. This is not in fact a new museum but rather the creation of a monographic (...)
A view of Amsterdam by Gerrit Berckheyde acquired by the Rijksmuseum 29/05/2009
In September 2008, the Rijksmuseum acquired a painting by Gerrit Berckheyde representing a view of one the main canals in Amsterdam
Recent additions to the Musée Girodet in Montargis 29/05/2009
Now that the extension has been made official and surveys are to start, the Musée de Montargis continues to pursue its policy of acquisitions based on two strong points : Girodet (and his students) and Romantic sculpture around the figure of (...)
A masterpiece by Giovanni Antonio Sogliani on deposit at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Caen 26/05/2009
Generally, paintings should be maintained in the place for which they were commissioned or produced. However, at times village churches, when receiving donations or bequests, find themselves with important works which have no direct link to (...)
Reconstitution of a predella by the Städelsches Kunstinstitut in Frankfurt 26/05/2009
The German museum purchased a panel of the Umbrian School circa 1500 representing Saint Augustine Taking the Habit
First acquisition committee for the Louvre-Abou Dhabi 25/05/2009
An acquisition committee for the Louvre-Abou Dhabi has been set up and met for the first time on 21 April.
The Musée Gustave Moreau posts a database for its drawings 24/05/2009
The new database, devoted to the drawings of the Musée Gustave Moreau, is remarkable as are the others already offered by the RMN. User friendly and highly commendable for its ergonomics, this is a veritable scholarly catalogue which also (...)
Did the Kimbell Museum acquire a Michelangelo ? 14/05/2009
When he was twelve or thirteen, Michelangelo who was then in Domenico Ghirlandaio’s workshop, had painted a copy of Martin Schongauer’s engraving
Delacroix by Fielding, Fielding by Delacroix 14/05/2009
The Musée Delacroix, now an annex to the Louvre, has acquired a pair of paintings from the Wildenstein Gallery in New York depicting, respectively, the English painter Thales Fielding and Eugène Delacroix, each representing the (...)
New acquisitions for the Musée Hébert 11/05/2009
Ernest Hébert, a painter who is relatively unknown to the public, enjoys the rare privilege of having two museums devoted to his works, one in La Tronche, near Grenoble, and the other in Paris.
The INHA posts a dictionary of art historians 11/05/2009
The INHA recently posted the first part of its Dictionnaire des historiens de l’art actifs en France de la Révolution à la Première Guerre mondiale
The Temptation of Saint Francis by Simon Vouet Restored 11/05/2009
Vouet’s Italian production has been highlighted recently in more than one spot. After Nantes, Besançon is honoring him with a brilliant retrospective
The Louis XIV sculpture returns to Versailles 30/04/2009
The return of the equestrian bronze statue of Louis XIV is excellent news.
Publication and exhibitions of acquisitions at the Musée des Augustins in Toulouse 29/04/2009
The museums in Toulouse are very active indeed. While Paul-Dupuy is exhibiting its recent acquisitions of drawings, the Augustins is presenting its additions in paintings and sculptures since (...)
Judith and Holophernes by Virginia da Vezzo 29/04/2009
Judith and Holophernes by Virginia da Vezzo (or da Vezzi), the wife of Simon Vouet, particularly struck visitors during the exhibition devoted to the latter’s Italian years
Several sculptures acquired by the Rijksmuseum, thanks to the lottery 29/04/2009
Although in France the idea of establishing a tax on lotteries, even creating a specific lottery to create revenues for the restoration of historical monuments, or acquiring art works, is brought up on a regular basis by the government without (...)
Acquisition of a male portrait by Adèle Romany for Boston 29/04/2009
This museum has just purchased a very beautiful portrait by Adèle Romany, which had come up for auction at Sotheby’s Paris on 19 June 2007, from James Harvey British Art in London
Guido Cagnacci’s David purchased by the Getty 23/04/2009
Various publications first contributed to a more complete catalogue of Guido Cagnacci fifty years ago, but art lovers have appreciated him for much longer. The Forli exhibition last year reminded those who may have forgotten him of his major (...)
Several paintings bequeathed to the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Strasbourg 15/04/2009
The museum in Strasbourg has just received a very interesting bequest of 11 old master paintings. These works graced the Parisian apartment of Ann L. Oppenheimer, born in Strasbourg in 1912 and deceased on 23 January (...)
Dominique Brême appointed director of the Musée de l’Ile-de-France in Sceaux 15/04/2009
Under the wing of the Conseil Général des Hauts-de-Seine, the Musée de l’Ile-de-France is located in the château built during the Second Empire to replace the previous one, destroyed at the beginning of the 19th (...)
A study by Carlo Carlone acquired by Tokyo 14/04/2009
Inaugurated in 1959 in a Le Corbusier building, Tokyo’s National Museum of Western Art was first constituted of a private Japanese collection
First signs of conflict of interest for the Louvre Abou Dhabi 08/04/2009
France-Muséums has just started acquiring works for the Abou Dhabi museum and there are already signs of a conflict of interest with French museums, ultimately settled to the detriment of the (...)
A painting by Ary Scheffer discovered in Minnesota and donated to the Minneapolis museum 08/04/2009
Christ Consoler is one of Ary Scheffer’s most important works, exhibited at the Salon de 1837. This image became very popular, notably thanks to the engraving edited by Goupil.
For the restoration of a stained-glass window by Claudius Lavergne 03/04/2009
The parish church in Vrigne-aux-Bois, in the Ardennes region (France), was built in 1863 by Marguerite Evain Gendarme, on the estate of the family château which dated from 1820.
Recent acquisitions of drawings by the Musée Paul-Dupuy in Toulouse 02/04/2009
The Musée Paul-Dupuy, which houses the graphic arts cabinet room in the city of Toulouse, has for many years applied an active and coherent policy for enriching its drawing collections. Purchases correspond to two main (...)
Hang of the « Bergé – Saint-Laurent » Goya at the Louvre 31/03/2009
The Goya from the Bergé Saint-Laurent collection, the Portrait of Don Luis María de Cistué
Discovery of a double portrait by Jacob Adriaensz Backer in Reims 31/03/2009
The catalogue for the Maastricht Fine Arts Fair this year opened with an introductory essay by Peter van den Brink, director of the Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum in Aix-la-Chapelle devoted to the Dutch painter Jacob Adriaensz (...)
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