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Newsletter 14/04/2009
The Newsletter in english is not yet available. You can subscribe to the Newsletter of La Tribune de l’Art, in French. Send us an e-mail to be informed when the English Newsletter will be (...)
Michelangelo : The Real Artist behind the Mona Lisa 01/04/2012
Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) Oil on panel - 76.8 x 53 cm Paris, Musée du Louvre Photo : C2RMF Gianfranco Salvatori is well aware that he is about to set loose a veritable bomb which will go far beyond the confines of the museum world. (...)
Links to art history websites 14/04/2005
SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS (see also in assorted sites by art historians containing articles) Apollo : The current issue of the journal is free online (must sign up) The National Gallery of Canada’s Bulletin and Annual Bulletin (1963-1985) : All the (...)
The restoration of the Hôtel Lambert goes to court before the Tribunal Administratif 06/09/2009
Louis Le Vau Hôtel Lambert, courtyard Photo : SCI Hôtel Lambert / M. Lombard This summer the Hôtel Lambert case took a surprising legal turn. The authorization permit issued by the Ministry of Culture (see news item of 23/6/09) was appealed (...)
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 (...)
It’s not every day that an old master we barely knew resurfaces in the art world. Thanks to the Canesso Gallery which is exhibiting practically all of his work until 6 November, the Maestro della tela jeans has now reappeared and can assume his (...)
Simon Vouet en Italie 03/01/2012
The proceedings from the Simon Vouet colloquium in Italy organized at the same time as the remarkable exhibition by Dominique Jacquot and Adeline Collange at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Nantes were published recently and are just as fascinating. (...)
Nicolas Colombel 09/01/2013
Since 1984 and the memorable exhibition highlighting 17th century painting in Rouen, the Musée des Beaux-Arts in this city had strangely enough not staged any other retrospectives of old master painting. This has now been remedied with the (...)
Henry de Triqueti (1803-1874) 01/11/2007
About twenty years ago, when visiting the Musée Girodet, we could see the building outside housing the pieces from the artist’s workshop. The collection was at the time in precarious shape. A rehabilitation of XIXth C. sculpture was just beginning (...)
Cima da Conegliano. Master of the Venitian Renaissance 20/04/2012
Lorenzo Lotto, Le siècle de Titien, Splendeur de Venise or Titien, Tintoret, Véronese... Of all the Italian schools, the Venetian has always been the favorite of French museums for the major retrospectives staged over the recent past. At the very (...)
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 (...)
Charles Meynier 02/05/2008
This review could have just as easily appeared in the Publications section. Indeed, the exhibition organized by the Bibliothèque Marmottan accompanies the monographic study published by Isabelle Mayer-Michalon at Arthéna and which is much more (...)
A Painting by Eugène Fromentin Acquired by La Rochelle 28/05/2013
The Musée des Beaux-Arts in La Rochelle has made a new addition to its collections, going as far as New York to purchase a painting by Eugène Fromentin representing An Arab on Horseback Carrying a Mad Man at Sotheby’s on 2 February 2013 for $28,125 (...)
A Trompe l’oeil by Jean Valette-Penot Acquired by the Château in Pau 28/02/2013
The Musée national du château de Pau has just acquired from the Orsay Gallery in Paris, a work by Jean Valette-Falgore, known as Valette-Penot, representing a relief with a portrait of Henri IV in profile. Born in Montauban in 1710, a student of (...)
The Louis Daguerre Diorama is reborn in Bry-sur-Marne 26/05/2010
Not content with having invented the photographic process bearing his name, the painter Louis Daguerre also created the Diorama, a theatrical method by which an immense canvas painted on both sides was animated by lights (...)
Jean-Léon Gérôme 12/11/2010
With the Cabanel retrospective still on in Montpellier, the Musée d’Orsay is highlighting Jean-Léon Gérôme while also presenting an exhibition on Claude Monet at the Grand Palais. This is no coincidence, simply proof that French museums are finally (...)
The Oath of Our Ancestors by Guillon-Lethière will be restored by France 20/02/2010
Adrien Goetz on his Facebook page had been the first to show concern, after the catastrophic earthquake in Haiti last 12 January, for the fate of the large painting by Guillaume Guillon-Lethière The Oath of Our Ancestors, veritable “symbol of (...)
A painting by Jean-François de Troy joins its pendant in Berlin 22/09/2008
The Gemäldegalerie in Berlin has acquired a small oil on canvas by Jean-François de Troy representing
Bodies and Shadows. Caravaggio and European Caravaggism 13/08/2012
With the sole exception, almost forty years ago now, of the exhibition organized by Jean-Pierre Cuzin and Arnauld Brejon de Lavergnée , which in fact included only French artists (or, some thought to be so at the time), there has not been a show (...)
Death of Mario di Giampaolo 17/08/2008
On Thursday 31 July Mario di Giampaolo, one of the foremost specialists of 16th century Italian drawing, notably the Lombard and Emilian schools, passed away at the age of 67.
The Louvre Invents the Gruyère Museum 03/10/2012
Many of you probably remember the words spoken above by the president of the Louvre during an interview in Le Figaro. We had already pointed out that there was no need to wait for the Louvre-Lens to observe the holes, the Louvre was full of (...)
Jean-Patrice Marandel has been a curator at the LACMA for almost 15 years now. He is especially active in his acquisitions policy which is particularly discerning, often favoring Old Masters, French and Italian from the XVIth to the XVIIIth (...)
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.
A Corot acquired by the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne 28/04/2008
The Swiss museum purchased a painting by Camille Corot representing Ouchy near Lausanne
A study ascribed to Rubens stolen in Poitiers 28/11/2007
Ascribed to (or after) Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) The Allegory of Good Government Oil on panel - 26 x 21 cm Poitiers, Musée Rupert de Chièvres (work stolen late November 2007) Photo : Ch. Vignaud / Musées de la ville de Poitiers (...)
The Louis XIV sculpture returns to Versailles 30/04/2009
The return of the equestrian bronze statue of Louis XIV is excellent news.
Le Silence by Auguste Préault for the Dallas Museum of Art 05/03/2014
"The horror of the fatal enigma, the seal closing the mouth at the moment we learn the word, all of this was captured once in a sublime work which I discovered in an enclosed part of the Père Lachaise, at the Jewish cemetery." This is the way (...)
A study by Henri de Favanne for the château de Chanteloup 23/06/2007
On Tuesday, June 19th, the museum in Tours preempted a sale at Sotheby’s in Paris of a painting by Henri de Favanne for 28,800 € (including charges). It is a preliminary study for a section in the gallery of the château de (...)
A Relief by Louis Le Conte Acquired by the Louvre 18/05/2014
The Département des sculptures at the Louvre made this beautiful acquisition at Sotheby’s Paris, purchasing this marble relief last 14 May which had remained unsold after the auction. The work represents Hope, identified by the anchor, and is by (...)
Félicie de Fauveau (1801-1886), the Amazon of Sculpture 08/05/2013
We have already spoken on two occasions about the exhibition at the Historial de Vendée on Félicie de Fauveau, one of the best French sculptors of the 19th century. Everyone knows how cinema has helped to make Camille Claudel, another great woman (...)
Imperiled museums (1) : Auxerre 03/12/2009
The Abbaye Saint-Germain, housing the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire d’Auxerre, is made up of a group of buildings centered around an 18th century cloister. In the 20th century, the site was occupied by a hospital which moved in 1962, except for the (...)
Henri Lehmann 03/09/2007
Prominent decorator, subtle portrait artist and first rate draughtsman, Henri Lehmann is one of the most unappreciated painters of the XIXth C. A student of Ingres, he suffered the same ostracism as the other artists of this atelier, the only (...)
Patrick de Carolis Opens an Audit of the Musée Marmottan 04/03/2013
After having barely arrived at the head of the Musée Marmottan, Patrick de Carolis has made several decisions which he announced officially at a session of the Académie des Beaux-Arts. He is first launching a complete audit of the collections, (...)
Xavier Bray appointed chief curator of the Dulwich Picture Gallery 13/01/2011
Xavier Bray replaced Xavier F. Salomon, after his departure to the Metropolitan Museum, as the chief curator of the Dulwich Picture Gallery beginning of January 2011. Born in 1972, Xavier Bray holds dual citizenship, British and French. He (...)
Acceptance in lieu : recent acquisitions of British museums (2) 25/01/2010
As announced (see news item of 21/11/09), we list below the works acquired through “acceptance in lieu“ for the period 2008/2009 (following that already published for 2007/2008). Many of these objects have not yet been assigned definitely to a (...)
Mexico City honors Erik Larsen, historian of Flemish art 03/10/2007
Born in Austria, Emeritus Professor at Lawrence University in Kansas, the art historian Erik Larsen (1911-2006) was a renowned specialist of Flemish art and of the Dutch Golden Age, author
François Hollande’s Tax Measures : A Fatal Threat to Historical Heritage 25/08/2012
The Art Tribune does not take political stands. We are here to denounce threats to historical heritage from both the left and the right. As such, we did not spare previous governments, eliciting accusations of "leftist" by one or two readers (...)
Antonio Verrio. Chroniques d’un peintre italien voyageur (1636-1707) 10/06/2010
Antonio Verrio. The artist’s name is barely known today and yet he became painter to the king of England, Charles II, achieving international status and leaving behind painted murals in many British residences, including Windsor castle. (...)
Korean manuscripts : the end of inalienability ? 21/11/2010
The decision made by Nicolas Sarkozy during his trip to Seoul for the G20 summit will have far reaching consequences for national heritage, adding to those already endangering it.
Site Map 14/06/2006
Saint Martina by Pietro da Cortona acquired by the LACMA 01/08/2007
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art recently announced the acquisition thanks to funding from the Ahmanson Foundation of a unknown painting by Pietro da Cortona representing
The Rijksmuseum Reopens after a Ten-year Renovation 25/04/2013
After closing for ten years, due to various delays in the renovation project, the Rijksmuseum finally reopened its doors to the public on 13 April. Fortunately, it was well worth the wait. When first learning that Wilmotte was in charge of the (...)
Two New Internet Websites for Rembrandt and Goya 27/09/2012
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 (...)
A Painting by Luca Penni Acquired by the Louvre 08/01/2013
Thanks to a chance offering on the art market, an extremely rare occurrence since there are very few painted works by Lucas Penni still preserved, the Musée du Louvre acquired a painting by this master (from the Jan Muller Antiques gallery in (...)
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 (...)
Guimard up for sale 25/02/2008
The Castel Henriette, the hôtel Nozal, the Villa la Surprise, the entrance to the Bastille metro station and many others : these works by Hector Guimard constitute a sorrowful litany of destroyed (...)
BRAFA 2012 in Brussels 23/01/2012
The BRAFA which opened on 20 January in Brussels continues to improve in quality every year. True, old master paintings and drawings are, regrettably, fewer in number but this is compensated by the abundance of sculptures and, of course, art (...)
Geneva Purchases a Panorama des Alpes by Gustave Courbet 20/05/2014
The Musée d’Art et d’Histoire in Geneva recently purchased a large painting by Gustave Courbet representing a Panorama des Alpes, produced late in his life after his exile in Switzerland. The view showing the mountain ranges of the Dents du Midi (...)
Alexandre Cabanel 1823-1889. La tradition du beau 30/09/2010
The Musée Fabre continues to make essential contributions to art history through its exhibitions. Thanks to this establishment several important artists now boast a reference work, published in accompaniment to a thorough retrospective of their (...)
