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The latest news in the History of Western Art from the Middle Age to the 1930's
Subscribe to The Art Tribune 14/04/2006
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
A San Giovannino Attributed to Michaelangelo Reconstructed 10/09/2013
Rarely a year, even a month, goes by without the discovery of a so called Michelangelo, be it Buonarroti or Merisi ! The readers of The Art Tribune are well aware as we regularly denounce these media scoops, often concerning works where an (...)
Frans Hals. Eye to Eye with Rembrandt, Rubens and Titian 19/04/2013
Comparing is not enough. The Haarlem exhibition on Frans Hals, an "adoptive" native son, which attempts to associate the artist with 16th century Venetian painting and also with some of his contemporaries, is a perfect illustration of these (...)
The destruction of France’s churches 24/05/2007
In November 2006, we spoke out against the demolition of the church in Saint-Georges-des Gardes, in Maine-et-Loire. An article in Le Figaro May 18, 2007 informs us that two other religious buildings are to be destroyed just a few kilometres away (...)
Péristyles, the Journal of the Amis du Musée des Beaux-Arts in Nancy 13/05/2013
An art history journal, especially one which has been around for some time, is so rare that we would like to point out a very discreet bulletin founded in 1992 which has appeared since then at regular intervals, twice a year. The title of the (...)
Painting History. Delaroche and Lady Jane Grey 28/04/2010
Paul Delaroche loved England and English history. In turn, the British have known how to express their appreciation. Most of the literature on the artist has been written by English authors and the National Gallery is now highlighting his (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
The Duke of Luynes’ {Surtout} by Froment-Meurice Acquired by the Louvre 14/06/2013
During the remarkable exhibition at the Musée de la Vie Romantique, in 2003, highlighting the Froment-Meurice family, the Surtout commissioned by the Duke of Luynes from François-Désiré Froment-Meurice was included in the catalogue but not (...)
A chronicle of planned acquisitions : Poussin for Montpellier and Ingres for the Louvre 10/11/2009
We have already mentioned several times the Musée Fabre’s project to buy a fragment of a Nicolas Poussin painting for which it already owns the right side, Venus and Adonis. The two pieces had been brought together for the exhibition Poussin and (...)
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 (...)
François de Troy and the Musée de l’Ile-de-France : call for fundraising and acquisition 25/02/2008
The Journal Officiel of 23 February has published a fundraising appeal for the purchase of a painting by François de Troy representing
A study for Christ in the Garden of Olives acquired by the Musée Delacroix 12/07/2007
The Musée Delacroix, which now depends on the Louvre, has just acquired from Hubert Duchemin (Cabinet Eric Turquin in Paris) a fine preliminary study for the famous
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 (...)
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 (...)
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. (...)
A Gallé vase creates a controversy with the Hermitage 24/08/2009
The Orchidea Urn Phalaenopsis by Emile Gallé, one of a pair donated by the city of Paris to the Tsarina Alexandra Fjodorowna in 1896 and belonging to the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, has raised a heated (...)
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 (...)
The School of Philippe de Champaigne 28/12/2007
Despite the monographic study on him by Bernard Dorival some years ago, Jean-Baptiste de Champaigne remains relatively unknown due to the fact that he is strongly overshadowed by his uncle. Although several paintings have been published, when (...)
A Head of Christ by Charles Daverdoing at the Musée d’Arras 30/10/2007
Charles Daverdoing, a student of Baron Gros from Belgium, who settled with his family in Arras at the age of seven was unlucky in his legacy.
A Self-Portrait with Lute by Artemisia Gentilischi Acquired by Hartford 03/04/2014
The Atheneum Museum recently purchased, with the intervention of Christie’s New York, a Self-Portrait with Lute by Artemisia Gentileschi. While the paintings attributed to this artist often come under debate among specialists, this one, (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
Bernini and the Birth of Baroque Portrait Sculpture 03/12/2008
Organizing sculpture exhibitions is a difficult task as the size and weight of the works make them difficult to transport, sometimes even impossible, at other times highly unadvisable. Baroque sculpture is even harder to present outside of its (...)
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
Legal Announcement 14/05/2006
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 (...)
A Biard Painting Donated to the Dallas Museum of Art 19/03/2013
Charles Baudelaire did not like François-Auguste Biard and signed his critical execution in a few lines when reviewing the Salon of 1846, once again proving that this great poet was a mediocre art critic. In fact, Biard was a multi-talented (...)
Real ? Fake ? The Italian Primitive Was almost Perfect 14/08/2012
"Raphael did not just suddenly fall down from the sky to honor the century of Julius II and Leo X.". With this assertion taken from his Considérations sur l’état de la peinture en Italie, dans les quatre siècles qui ont précédé celui de Raphaël (...)
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 (...)
Poussin’s Ordination remains unsold 10/12/2010
Nicolas Poussin’s painting, Ordination, part of the Seven Sacraments series (of which only five were still together in the Duke of Rutland’s collection), did not sell at the auction held on Tuesday, 7 December at Christie’s (...)
Several Sculpture Exhibitions in Parisian Galleries 19/09/2012
Sculpture has long been one of the weakest sectors of the Parisian art market. Except for notably Patrice Bellanger who every other year participates in the Biennale des Antiquaires and also Ratton-Ladrière , there are very few art dealers (...)
Various Exhibitions in Paris around the Salon du Dessin 16/04/2013
There are many exhibitions this year during the Salon du Dessin in private galleries around Paris. Besides the ones we mentioned earlier, here are a few more presenting some very beautiful offerings. Certainly the most outstanding is at Boquet (...)
Pompeo Batoni (1708-1787) 06/04/2008
Englishmen passing through Rome on their Grand Tour, the trip through Europe that any true aristocrat had to take, wanted their portrait done by him. This is probably why Pompeo Batoni, one of the great Italian painters of the second half of the (...)
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 (...)
Reopening of the Musée Granet in Aix-en-Provence 20/08/2007
The latest trend in inaugurations is doing it twice. The former French Minister of Culture, Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres, did not hesitate in officially celebrating the opening of empty museums, weeks or even months before the public could gain (...)
Artemesia 1593-1654 23/03/2012
Seeing an exhibition of 17th century Italian painting is such a rare occurrence in Paris that visitors should not miss the chance provided by the Musée Maillol, especially since this is a retrospective of a somewhat legendary artist, considered (...)
Saint Anne, Leonardo Da Vinci’s Last Masterpiece 04/06/2012
We generally think that the world’s greatest masterpieces have all been thoroughly studied, leaving nothing more for us to discover. In fact, this is not true as is masterfully demonstrated by the current exhibition now showing at the Louvre on (...)
After the exhibition in Evreux devoted to Jean-Baptiste de Champaigne and Nicolas de Plattemontagne, after the retrospective on Philippe de Champaigne in Lille, the Musée de Port-Royal is now highlighting these three artists by presenting their (...)
Nicholas Penny to be appointed Director of the National Gallery in London 27/11/2007
Nicholas Penny, senior curator for sculptures at the National Gallery in Washington since 2002, will be appointed Director of the National Gallery in London as soon as the British Prime Minister,
Rediscovery of a Drawing by Alessandro Allori 06/05/2014
Auction discoveries do not occur only at the Hôtel Drouot. Bendor Grosvenor, on his blog Art History News, points out the spectacular resurfacing of a drawing by Alessandro Allori in the United States. This is a preparatory work for the figure (...)
A landscape by Philippe de Champaigne acquired by Lille 13/08/2008
In a recent article devoted to 17th and 18th century French paintings, we offered a reproduction of an unpublished landscape by Philippe de Champaigne presented by Tajan
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 (...)
Salon du Dessin 2012 31/03/2012
Endowed, as usual, with very beautiful sheets many of which in fact have not been viewed (at least in our case) often, the Salon du Dessin 2012 for once reflects a drawback : the number of galleries and drawings from the second half of the 20th (...)
What is The Art Tribune ? 14/04/2006
The myth of the Far West in American art 1830-1940 07/12/2007
With American culture ever more present in Europe, for better or worse, it is strange that XIXth C. painting and sculpture in the United States have been so overlooked. Still, it is often the case in their own country as well where Western (...)
The Getty Purchases a Controversial Watteau 16/03/2012
The Getty Museum has recently purchased as fully acknowledged by Antoine Watteau, a painting previously found in the Paul-Louis Weiller collection which had been auctioned at the Hôtel Drouot on 5 April 2011 at Gros-Delettrez under a cautious (...)
