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The latest news in the History of Western Art from the Middle Age to the 1930's
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 (...)
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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 (...)
Perseus and the Gorgon by Camille Claudel acquired by the museum in Nogent-sur-Seine 20/07/2008
Camille Claudel’s grand marble sculpture, acquired by the museum in Nogent-sur-Seine thanks to the concerted effort of several patrons
The Dusseldorf School 22/11/2011
When German museums set up an exhibition, they usually do not do things halfway. After the sweeping retrospective on the Master of Naumburg which we discussed here, the current one on the Dusseldorf school, organized by the Kunstpalast which (...)
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. (...)
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 (...)
The Last Judgement, a painting by Aert Claesz for the Stedelijk Museum in Leiden 10/11/2009
The Dutch museum recently purchased a painting by Aert Claesz, also known as Aertgen Van Leyden (ill. 1), a rare artist as only about twenty of his works are known.
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
A Renaissance bronze collection donated to the National Gallery in Washington 09/06/2008
From 27 January to 4 May of this year, this American museum exhibited the Renaissance bronze collection belonging to Robert H. Smith. A businessman, he is president of the Charles E. Smith Company, and has been a patron for many long years of (...)
The illegal installation of Clara-Clara in the Tuileries Gardens 22/02/2009
Installed in April 2008 in the Tuileries at the time of the exhibition Monumenta at the Grand Palais, the gigantic steel sculpture
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 (...)
Fragonard : "La Guimard" Is Madame de Grave and "Diderot" Is Meu(s)nier 04/12/2012
The Fragonard portrait which has, almost, always been known as Portrait of Diderot is in fact not a likeness of the philosopher as proven by the drawing recently auctioned off and published for the first time on 17 July on The Art Tribune by (...)
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 (...)
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
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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 Lady With an Ermine by Leonardo photographed with multispectral camera 15/11/2007
We had presented the demonstration of the multispectral camera at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lille by Lumière Technology and explained its contributions to the work of art historians and (...)
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 (...)
Contact 02/11/2008
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An interview with Guy Cogeval, president of the Musée d’Orsay 14/10/2009
A little over a year and a half after his appointment at the head of the Musée d’Orsay, Guy Cogeval organized a press conference a few days ago to present the project for reorganizing the collections. He granted us an interview at this time (...)
Some acquisitions and a new attribution for the Musée des Augustins in Toulouse 16/03/2008
Despite a restricted acquisitions budget, the museum has managed to continue its policy of enriching the collections
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 (...)
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 (...)
The Burning Bush by Nicolas Froment now restored 10/08/2010
The famous triptych of the Burning Bush by Nicolas Froment, painted in 1475-1476 for the funerary chapel of Roi Rene’ in the church of the Grands-Carmes at Aix-en-Provence, has resided in the Cathedrale Saint-Sauveur since the 19th century. It (...)
The Louvre Pre-Empts a Painting by Hubert Robert 18/11/2012
On 29 November 1789, Baron de Besenval, the military commander of the Ile-de-France region and of the Paris garrison when the first Revolutionary riots broke out (but also a great collector of Northern European paintings), was imprisoned at the (...)
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 (...)
Gauguin. Maker of Myth 07/12/2010
While Monet is showing at the Grand Palais (see article) under the care of Richard Thomson, his wife Belinda Thomson is the curator of the Gauguin retrospective at the Tate Modern, the first one ever organized in the United Kingdom, which is (...)
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 (...)
Confusion surrounding Raphael’s Portrait of a Young Man in the Czartoryski Collection 13/08/2012
In 2007 we had published an interview with Prince Czartoryski who directs the foundation of the same name and which manages the Czartoryski Museum in Cracow. The prince had explained how he attempted, at times successfully, to recover paintings (...)
A painting by François de Nomé acquired by the Musée de Metz 18/11/2007
Three years ago, the Musée de Metz had devoted an exhibition to the painters known under the generic name of « Monsu Desiderio », François de Nomé and Didier Barra.
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 (...)
Valérie Guillaume Appointed as Head of the Musée Carnavalet 13/10/2013
The appointment of Valérie Guillaume as head of the Musée Carnavalet starting 1st December 2013 does not come as a surprise as we had known about it for several weeks, though the recruiting procedure was still in progress. However, the news might (...)
Guillaume Ambroise, Future Director of the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Quimper 16/05/2012
With the current director, André Cariou, now leaving for retirement, the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Quimper has appointed Guillaume Ambroise to head the institution as of September 1st. Guillaume Ambroise, formerly director of the Musée des Beaux-Arts (...)
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 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 (...)
Masters of European Drawing from the 16th to the 20th century. Georges Pebereau Collection 14/01/2010
Should private collections be exhibited at the Louvre ? The answer is certainly yes when they are of museum quality. This was the case for the Louis-Antoine Prat’s and also the Motais de Narbonne’s which will be shown in the spring. Can one say (...)
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
Reopening of the Petit Trianon after restoration 05/10/2008
The Petit Trianon and the Pavillon Français have just been inaugurated and will reopen for the public this week after two years of restoration work.
A Last Judgement by Nicolas Pickenoy acquired by the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Pau 15/10/2008
The Museum in Pau has just acquired a painting by Nicolas Eliasz, called Pickenoy, representing The Last Judgement
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 (...)
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, (...)
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 (...)
Death Comes to the Table by Giovanni Martinelli Acquired by Raleigh 03/03/2014
We had already pointed out the acquisition of two paintings presented at the Sarti art gallery in a Caravaggesque exhibition last year : a Daniele Crespi purchased by LACMA and an Andrea Vaccaro by the Musée Fabre in Montpellier. A third canvas (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
The Façade of the Church of Saint Paul-Saint Louis Restored 03/11/2012
A few weeks ago, the façade of the church of Saint Paul-Saint Louis, now entirely restored, was unveiled after the scaffoldings were removed, allowing Parisians as well as tourists to rediscover the building. The change is indeed extraordinary (...)
