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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 (...)
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 (...)
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. (...)
Purchase of an Emile Peynot Cast by La Piscine in Roubaix 18/11/2013
At the Artcurial auction on 13 November when the Musée Delacroix pre-empted the Portrait of Jérôme Bonaparte by Géricault, La Piscine in Roubaix (Musée d’Art et d’Industrie André Diligent) purchased a cast of a sculpture by Emile Peynot for 9,743€ (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
Threat of demolition for the church of Saint Jacques in Abbeville 30/05/2010
The church of Saint Jacques in Abbeville is located in a neighborhood spared by the bombings which destroyed 80% of the city in 1940. It was built in a neo-Gothic style by the architect Victor Deleforterie, a follower of Viollet-le-Duc, on the (...)
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 (...)
Posting of the Repertory of Italian paintings held in France 29/06/2008
The INHA (Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art) has just posted the first part of one its most highly awaited databases, the Répertoire des tableaux italiens dans les collections publiques françaises XIIIe-XIXe (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
Several preemptions at the sale of Lefuel collection architectural drawings 20/07/2008
On 26 June, Millon & Associés sold an exceptional collection of architectural drawings at the Hôtel Drouot, the whole accompanied by a luxurious catalogue.
A portrait by Nicolas de Largillierre joins the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Lille 21/03/2010
The painting acquired by the museum in Lille and which will hang in its rooms starting next May is an important work by Nicolas de Largillierre. This portrait of the artist’s daughter, Marguerite, had remained in the family until recently. It (...)
Janmot’s The Torture of Mezentius Acquired by the Musée d’Orsay 25/04/2014
The Etruscan king Mezentius : "went so far even as to mix dead bodies with humans, hand to hand, face to face, as a kind of torture, thus inflicting a slow death to these beings who liquefied themselves into pus and rot, in a miserable (...)
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 (...)
What is The Art Tribune ? 14/04/2006
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, (...)
A painting by Benjamin West acquired by the Louvre 29/07/2007
Benjamin West (1738-1820) Phaeton Asking Apollo to Drive the Sun Chariot, 1804 (before restoration) Oil on canvas - 142 x 213 cm Paris, Musée du Louvre Photo : Musée du Louvre 29/07/2007 — Acquisition — Paris, Musée du Louvre — The (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
The Gemäldegalerie in Berlin under Serious Threat 17/07/2012
Aix-en-Provence, where old master paintings are relegated to storage, is being emulated, but to a much more serious degree. The Gemäldegalerie in Berlin (a museum specialized in old masters) is now facing the threat of seeing a large part of its (...)
The state of churches in Paris (1) : Saint-Philippe-du-Roule 18/12/2010
This article inaugurates a new series devoted to Parisian churches. Although we often point out endangered religious sites, those here in the capital have escaped our attention thus far as we tend to assume that they are well (...)
An Exceptional Eugène Isabey Acquired by Montreal at the TEFAF 21/03/2013
Who is this dead officer being cast into the sea from a French ship with a cannon salute ? The Musée des Beaux-Arts in Montreal, which has just purchased this imposing and magnificent painting at the Maastricht Fair, from Richard Feigen, will (...)
The restoration of the Hôtel de la Marine in Paris 28/02/2009
Built between 1757 and 1774, the Hôtel de la Marine, former Garde-meuble (furniture storage house for the Crown) is one of the most important historical monuments in Paris, not only for its façade by Jacques-Ange Gabriel, but also for its décor (...)
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 (...)
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 mayor of Lens wants to destroy a historical monument 05/09/2010
When the government and the Ministry of Culture decide to join forces, in an exemplary manner for once, and apply the law protecting historical monuments, we see just how useful it can be. A local elected official, Guy Delcourt, the mayor of (...)
Saint-Saturnin : the Priest, the Minister’s Mother and the High Altar 01/08/2012
The wave of vandalism affecting French churches in the 1960’s up to the early 1970’s was devastating. The pretext claiming to apply the directives of Council Vatican II was used as a practical excuse for as we know, Italy for example, did not (...)
After the two Poussin affairs, it’s now Friedrich’s turn 13/03/2010
While traveling through Germany in 1834, David d’Angers visited Caspar David Frierdrich in his Dresden workshop. He writes in his travel journal
A Portrait of Rousseau by Quentin de La Tour acquired by the Musée Jean-Jacques Rousseau 10/07/2007
The Musée Jean-Jacques Rousseau, located in the house (enlarged in the XIXth C.) where he lived between 1757 and 1762, acquired at public auction in London, at Sotheby’s last July 5th, a pastel portrait of the writer by Maurice Quentin de la Tour (...)
Multispectral digitization is demonstrated at the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille 22/09/2007
We met the director of Lumière Technology, Jean Pénicaut a few months ago. The photographic process marketed by this company struck us as being absolutely revolutionary. During the European Heritage Days last weekend, Alain Tapié, director of the (...)
The purpose of this series of articles is to prove, illustrating specific cases, that for the most part, and despite recent Parliamentary threats, French law provides satisfactory protection of our heritage if only those in charge of applying (...)
What Lies in the Future for the Hotel-Dieu in Lyon ? 01/08/2012
The Hotel-Dieu in Lyon, built by Soufflot in the 18th century, though founded in the 12th, is one of the most beautiful and most important monuments in this city but also one of the least well known. The reason for this is that it was (...)
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 (...)
Giant billboards : Paris is just like Venice 06/01/2011
Four years ago, the Code du patrimoine was modified by a law (issued by Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres…) authorizing, under very specific conditions, billboards to be hung over the canvases covering historical monuments during repairs. We had not (...)
In 2003, the chateau of Luneville was partly destroyed by fire causing many people to express their dismay, including politicians who had until then never showed any interest in this 18th century masterpiece and which is now undergoing (...)
Reattribution and Restoration of a Painting by Juan Bautista Maíno 16/07/2012
Juan Bautista Maíno, one of the first Spanish painters influenced by Caravaggio after a stay in Rome from 1605 to around 1610, has recently appeared in headlines several times, notably after a monographic exhibition at the Prado in 2009 and the (...)
An Interview with Jennifer Montagu 16/05/2008
Jennifer Montagu was in Paris during the Salon du Dessin, where she participated to a colloquium about the drawings of sculptors (see our interview with Guilhem Scherf). We took advantage of this occasion to meet and interview her about her (...)
Two exhibitions about Paul Baudry 30/01/2008
The musee de La Roche-sur-Yon, which had remained closed for several years, organized at the end of 2007 its first major exhibition since the one devoted to Paul Braudy in 1986. The decorator of the Paris Opera was once again represented but (...)
An unknown Titian sold at auction in Leicestirshire ? 21/07/2007
On Thursday, July 10 in Market Harborough, Leicestershire, Gilding’s, a small auction house, listed a painting described as dating from the XVIIIth C. and estimated at £300 to £500. It totalled a gavel price of (...)
The Louvre without Vermeer 13/09/2008
1. Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675) The Astronomer Oil on canvas - 51 x 45 cm Paris, Musée du Louvre (but not in 2009) Photo : Wikipedia With all eyes riveted on Abou Dhabi and Verona, the hope was that the Louvre-Atlanta agreement had been put (...)
Contact 02/11/2008
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A few sites on Victorian England 18/11/2009
Internet is a veritable goldmine for art historians. The following are links to sites specialized in English Art during the Victorian era.
« Hôtel de la Marine, a prestigious and exceptional building » 08/12/2010
We had illustrated several of the articles on the Hôtel de la Marine with a picture showing the façade of the monument bearing a large sign “To let. Very beautiful location”. Alas, reality is stranger than fiction : on the Budget Ministry’s (...)
Five Drawings by Navez for the Musée du Mont de Piété in Bergues 13/01/2013
The Musée du Mont-de-Piété in Bergues acquired five drawings by François-Joseph Navez, four of which have precise dates, from a private individual in 2012. The first sheet is preparatory, with very few variations, for one of the most important (...)
The Fitzwilliam Museum Looking to Acquire Poussin’s Extreme-Unction 16/08/2012
Since the sale of Nicolas Poussin’s Ordination to the Kimbell Art Museum we now know alas that the Seven Sacraments painted for Cassiano del Pozzo will inevitably be scattered far and wide. The dispersion first started over 70 years ago with the (...)
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 (...)
The Pont Colbert in Dieppe now threatened 28/02/2011
Three years ago, the Passerelle Eiffel in Bordeaux was saved at the last minute by a legal suit applying for listing (see news item of 29/6/08), which finally resulted in an official listing issued almost exactly one year ago on 22 February (...)
