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The latest news in the History of Western Art from the Middle Age to the 1930's
Latest acquisitions of the Musée de la Vie Romantique 03/12/2009
As active as ever, the Musée de la Vie Romantique generally acquires one important work a year. It also receives donations and the current year has seen particularly generous and interesting ones join its collections. The most important (...)
Acquisition of a copper by Jacques Stella for the Musée du Louvre 12/01/2008
Some painters seem to make the headlines regularly, especially as concerns acquisitions or rediscoveries. Jacques Stella is one of them.
Zaragoza purchases a portrait by Goya 18/12/2007
Having decided to create a Goya department at the Museo de Bellas Artes de Zaragoza, the Spanish government and the Aragon region are implementing the necessary means to achieve their goal by multiplying their (...)
The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nancy buys a Claude 28/12/2007
The Musée des Beaux-Arts in Nancy (France) had waited until 1980 to acquire its first painting by Claude Gellée, a native of Chamagne where he was born in 1600, not far from the capital city of the dukedom of Lorraine. The work, a (...)
A Painting by Guillon-Lethière Acquired by the Dallas Museum of Art 08/04/2013
How does one explain the fact that a masterpiece can remain on the art market for several years without finding a buyer ? We kept asking ourselves this question every time we admired Erminia and the Shepherds by Guillaume Guillon-Lethière at (...)
A copper by a « follower of Rembrandt » auctioned at £2.2 million 30/10/2007
It is not unusual for an anonymous work to be sold far over its original estimate. We have given some examples on
High Attendance at the Salon du Dessin 2013 12/04/2013
Tuesday evening, a large crowd eagerly attended the inauguration of the Salon du Dessin, more so than last year. This high attendance was all the more appreciated by the dealers because, according to them, major collectors and curators (French, (...)
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
Janniot’s legal heir opposes Kawamata’s project for the Palais de la Porte Doree 28/03/2010
Alfred Janniot (1889-1969) The Congo, detail from the bas-relief of the facade of the Palais de la Porte Dorée Photo : All rights reserved 28/3/10– Heritage – Paris, Palais de la Porte Doree – Under French law, an artist’s heirs also hold (...)
A Head of Christ by Paul Delaroche for the National Gallery of Scotland 05/09/2007
The National Gallery of Scotland has just acquired a Head of Christ by Paul Delaroche which would seem to be a preliminary study for the décor of the church of La Madeleine in Paris. The painting is inscribed on the (...)
The Jourdan-Barry Collection to be Auctioned at Sotheby’s 17/04/2012
A magnificent ensemble of silversmith pieces, assembled by Raymond Jourdan-Barry, then his son Pierre, will be dispersed at auction on Wednesday 18 April at Sotheby’s Paris. The 182 lots, ranging from the 16th to the 18th centuries, are largely (...)
The Louis XIV sculpture returns to Versailles 30/04/2009
The return of the equestrian bronze statue of Louis XIV is excellent news.
Opening of the Galleria del Palazzo Zevallos Stigliano 12/06/2007
On June 9th, the Palazzo Zevallos Stigliano in Naples opened to the public after a restauration of this XVIIIthC. building, site of the head offices for the Intesa San Paolo bank group, to its former (...)
The Fondation Custodia acquires an illustrated letter by Gauguin 18/12/2007
The Fondation Custodia holds an important collection of autographed letters by artists (over 40,000) and consistently pursues its policy of acquisitions in this area. It has just acquired at Sotheby’s New (...)
Philippe de Montebello, director of the Met, announces his future retirement 11/01/2008
Philippe de Montebello, director of the Metropolitan Museum for more than thirty years officially announced to the Board of Trustees yesterday that he would retire at the end of 2008. The question of who would be chosen to replace Montebello who (...)
The Saint Louis Art Museum buys a Degas and sells several other paintings 28/09/2007
This American museum has just acquired from Blondeau Fine Arts Services in Geneva for the sum of $10 million a canvas by Edgar Degas representing
Two months ago we wrote that the Prince of Lichtenstein’s acquisition of the
Two 18th century globes donated to the Bibliothèque nationale 29/05/2010
Two globes, one of the earth and one of the heavens dating from 1728-1730, of remarkable aesthetic quality as well as of high scientific interest, have been donated to the Bibliothèque nationale by the Club Français du (...)
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. (...)
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 (...)
Photographs of the five paintings stolen at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la ville de Paris 21/05/2010
Unfortunately, photographs of the five art works stolen the night before at the Musée d’Art Moderne have not been made readily available to the press as this might help in finding them. There is no doubt that this is one of the most important (...)
Donation of a Wax Model by David d’Angers to the Cabinet des médailles at the Louvre 03/01/2012
The Cabinet des médailles has received a donation from Francesco Tuzio of a wax model by the sculptor representing Jean-Baptiste Kleber shortly before the opening of the exhibition David d’Angers, les visages du romantisme. When creating his (...)
A Pompeo Batoni Painting for Ottawa 19/03/2012
At the first Paris-Tableau Salon, the Galerie Canesso had presented a superb canvas by Pompeo Batoni, Vulcan in his Forge. The work immediately attracted the attention of Paul Lang, deputy director and chief curator for paintings at the Musée des (...)
Natoire and Coustou : two preemptions for Versailles and the Louvre 15/06/2010
On Friday, 4 June 2010 at an auction in Paris at the Hôtel Drouot (auctioneers : Binoche-Giquello-Renaud) the Versailles château preempted a watercolour by Charles Natoire representing an Allegory for the Birth of a (...)
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 (...)
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
Theft of a painting by Frans van Mieris from the Art Gallery of South Wales 15/06/2007
Last Sunday, June 10, 2007, a painting by Frans van Mieris, representing a Cavalier, probably a self-portrait, was stolen from this Australian museum.
A late landscape by John Everett Millais acquired by the Tate Britain 29/03/2009
Exhibited during the recent Millais exposition, a landscape by this artist has just been donated to the Tate Gallery by his great-grand-son. The painting had been bought back by the painter’s family a few years (...)
A canvas by Francesco Trevisani acquired by the Rijksmuseum 04/09/2007
We recently published an article on the latest acquisitions to enrich the Rijksmuseum. A canvas by Francesco Trevisani, representing the Martyrdom of Saint Felicity and her Seven Sons was also purchased in 2006 from Etienne Breton in (...)
Three drawing exhibitions at Parisian galleries 27/03/2010
Several Parisian galleries have organized drawing exhibitions, as they do every year during the Salon du Dessin. This short review will not cover them all, focusing instead on three which struck us particularly for the quality of the works (...)
Fontainebleau is not Schönbrunn 08/11/2007
1. Château of Fontainebleau Quartier Henri IV, north wing, northern façade overlooking the city Current state. The entire façade is painted yellow Photo : D. Rykner (30 August 2007) A section of the château of Fontainebleau, known as the (...)
The Musée de la Chartreuse in Douai claims a Jules Breton painting 08/06/2010
The Museum in Douai was destroyed in 1944 along with part of the holdings (many sculptures, ceramics, the ethnographic collection…). Before then, it had already undergone extensive looting in 1918 due to its location in the occupied war zone. (...)
Nana Mouskori’s Subleyras 17/05/2010
Consisting mainly of copies, bad paintings, often old pieces which have been overly restored, the first part of the auction of the Nana Mouskori « collection » led by Pierre Cornette de Saint Cyr at the hôtel (...)
Recent acquisitions by the Metropolitan Museum : Annibale Carracci and Gaetano Gandolfi 13/06/2010
In 2009 the Metropolitan Museum received a small copper by Annibale Carracci representing Saint John the Baptist Showing Christ as a donation from Fabrizio Moretti and Adam Williams in tribute to Everett Fahy. The work had been sold at (...)
Paolo Domenico Finoglio. La Jérusalem délivrée 23/06/2010
At the same time that Toulouse is highlighting Verrio (see article), the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Lille is currently offering another unfamiliar 18th century Italian painter. This coincidence deserves our attention as museum initiatives which (...)
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 (...)
Recent acquisitions by the Metropolitan Museum : Edgar Degas 08/04/2010
With an already rich collection of Edgar Degas works starting with the Havemeyer donation in 1929 as well as others which have followed since, the Metropolitan Museum recently added to this ensemble two paintings and a drawing by the (...)
A Portrait by Abraham de Vries Acquired by the Petit Palais in Paris 06/03/2013
It had been much too long since the Petit Palais had acquired an old master painting. This is now corrected with the announcement that the Parisian museum has purchased a portrait of a man by Abraham de Vries from the London gallery, Rafael (...)
Serres d’Auteuil : Bertrand Delanoë’s omissions, inaccuracies and untruths 28/11/2010
Françoise Hardy is one of over 22,000 persons who have thus far signed the petition against the Roland-Garros extension into the Serres d’Auteil. She has furthermore written a letter to the mayor of Paris protesting the (...)
More Fabre Works for the Musée Fabre 28/02/2013
Among those artists highlighted at the Musée Fabre there is obviously the one who bequeathed his collections and gave it his name, François-Xavier Fabre. Besides the great retrospective staged in 2008, the museum continues to make regular (...)
Baltard to be destroyed (bis repetita) 20/04/2009
True, in this case the buildings do not concern Victor Baltard, but his father Louis-Pierre. However, the parallel is overwhelming
The Restoration of the Chapel des Ames du Purgatoire in the Church of Sainte Marguerite 25/01/2012
The Chapel of the Ames du Purgatoire [Souls in Purgatory], which is located on the left side of the church of Sainte Marguerite in Paris, was built in 1761/1762 and designed by Victor Louis, the famous architect known for the theater in (...)
Only a few Days left to See the Loutherbourg Exhibition in Strasbourg 07/02/2013
It sometimes happens, though a rare occurrence fortunately, that we visit exhibitions which arouse our enthusiasm but that we nevertheless, for reasons mostly related to an abundance of artistic events, do not present timely enough on The Art (...)
Three Drawings by Loutherbourg Donated to Strasbourg 12/02/2013
The beautiful retrospective on Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg organized by the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Strasbourg elicited the generosity of two private lenders who have decided to part with their works, a gouache and two drawings, for the (...)
Two New Acquisitions for the Getty Museum 09/02/2012
The Getty has just announced the acquisition of two very different works. One is a 16th century German panel, the other an 18th century French drawing. However, both are of the finest quality. The painting, representing the Trinity surrounded (...)
The Ecole du Louvre Comes to the Rescue of Religious Heritage 07/03/2013
La Sauvegarde de l’Art Français, presided by Olivier de Rohan is an approved public utility association created in 1921 whose aim is essentially to preserve the chapels and churches in France. In partnership with the Junior Entreprise at the Ecole (...)
Is the sale of the Vasari archives a prank ? 27/10/2009
An amazing affair has taken hold of Italy recently. It is in fact difficult to understand how Giorgio Vasari’s archives, held in his native city of Arezzo and belonging to the Museo Casa Vasari, a private museum whose owner, Count Giovanni (...)
Jules Lavirotte in Minneapolis 07/09/2007
One of the most striking of the many Art Nouveau buildings in Paris is located at 29, avenue Rapp and is due to Jules Lavirotte. The door
The Musée d’Art et d’Histoire in Geneva buys a Corot 08/06/2010
Last 2 June the Swiss museum made the final bid at a Sotheby’s auction in London for a painting by Camille Corot, Young Girl at the Fountain, for £ 1,609,250. The painting had formed part of the collections at the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, (...)
De chair et d’esprit. Dessins italiens du musée de Grenoble 26/03/2010
After Orleans and Lyon, Eric Pagliano, along with Catherine Monbeig Goguel and Philippe Costamagna, again regales us with a model catalogue – and exhibition – that of the Italian drawing collection in Grenoble. In just a few years, this young (...)
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