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The latest news in the History of Western Art from the Middle Age to the 1930's
The "Discovery" of Michelangelo’s Drawings : a Fake Scoop 13/06/2013
It had been a while since the public was flabbergasted by another earth-shattering scoop concerning an artistic genius. Now we learn here that drawings "never shown", even "unpublished", by Michelangelo were revealed to the press in Italy ; (...)
Three David works exhibited at the Galerie Turquin 18/09/2008
The exhibition which opened yesterday at the Turquin Gallery consists of only three paintings. But it is sure to be at the center of an intense discussion in museum and art history circles.
The Louvre posts database for D’Outre-Manche online 05/12/2008
The Musée du Louvre has just posted the database D’Outre-Manche online today thus offering British art held in France, in all fields, except those of engravings and photography
Five paintings stolen from the Frans Hals Museum recovered 20/09/2008
The Dutch police have recovered five paintings which had been stolen in 2002 from the Frans Hals Museum in Haarlem.
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In a recent article devoted to 17th and 18th century French paintings, we offered a reproduction of an unpublished landscape by Philippe de Champaigne presented by Tajan
More acquisitions for Orsay 27/08/2008
A few months ago, we had presented the latest Symbolist acquisitions made by the Musée d’Orsay.
The acquisition of a Saunier console by Versailles now confirmed 10/09/2008
Last 11 December, Jean-Jacques Aillagon announced the acquisition : « of an important piece of furniture belonging to the first Dauphin, listed as a Trésor National
Etudes photographiques website once again avalaible online 20/09/2008
Etudes photographiques, the French online journal directed by André Gunthert had decided to stop its internet publication two years ago since it thought it was impossible to illustrate its articles due to the French copyright (...)
A large format by Gaston Bussière acquired by Cherbourg 27/08/2008
Along with a sculpture by Gérôme and a study by Oudry , a third work was preempted by a French museum at the Sotheby’s auction in Paris on 25 June 2008.
The Arrest of Christ after Caravaggio recovered in Ukraine 08/12/2008
The Arrest of Christ, an old copy of the Caravaggio painting stolen in Odessa in July of this same year has been recovered by the Ukrainian police.
Exhibition of drawings by Gustav Klimt at the Coatalem Gallery 08/09/2008
The event is rather unusual : an exhibition of twenty-three drawings by Gustav Klimt, no doubt the leading artist of the Viennese Sezessionist movement, in a private gallery.
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 (...)
The Tournai Cathedral threatened by an architectural project 03/12/2008
What is the use of being protected by UNESCO ? The question is well worth asking when seeing the project which Tournai, in Belgium, wishes to build in the immediate vicinity of the cathedral, within the perimeter of protection for the monument (...)
The Exhibition of Roger van der Weyden’s Followers in Brussels Closes Two Months Early 21/11/2013
Our collaborator Bénédicte Bonnet Saint-Georges saw it and was soon going to write a review on it. She will now be spared the task ! The retrospective "L’Héritage de Roger van der Weyden. Peinture à Bruxelles 1450-1520" was remarkable according to (...)
Fundraising drive by Fontainebleau for an Albani 12/10/2008
Fontainebleau owns an important collection of old masters, little known to the public as they are exhibited in rooms which are rarely open due to a lack of guards. These works are in many cases former deposits from the Musée du (...)
Two paintings by Giovanni Battista Lama acquired by the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Agen 17/11/2008
The museum in Agen has just acquired two very beautiful Neapolitan paintings,
An update on inventory checks of art works on deposit in France 02/02/2009
The press conference held at the French Ministry of Culture last Thursday, 29 January 2009, confirmed once more statements already made on several occasions since the creation in 1996 of the mission to check inventories directed by Jean-Pierre (...)
A Terracotta by Godecharle for the Louvre 25/10/2013
The Département des Sculptures at the Louvre recently purchased a terracotta by the Belgian sculptor Gilles-Lambert Godecharle representing Charity from the Patrice Bellanger Gallery in Paris. Signed and dated 1795, this very accomplished study (...)
Rennes Launches a Fundraiser to Purchase a Ribera 20/09/2013
The Musée des Beaux-Arts in Rennes has launched a fundraiser, from 15 September to 31 December 2013, a public appeal in order to acquire a painting by Jusepe de Ribera which resurfaced last year in an exhibition organized by the Tarantino Gallery (...)
The Incredible Intellectual Void of the Louvre-Lens 19/04/2012
Whether one is for or against the principle behind the Louvre-Lens, one aspect is sure to elicit unanimous agreement : the incredible intellectual void of this project. The works which are to be exhibited in the "Galerie du Temps" (the name (...)
The Louvre Pre-empts a Ribera 28/03/2012
The Musée du Louvre, during the Oger Blanchet auction at the Hôtel Drouot on 26 March 2012, pre-empted a painting by Jusepe Ribera representing Saint John Evangelist, for 285,000€ (without charges), immediately after being acquired by the Parisian (...)
A strange exhibition on Henri Gaudier-Brzeska at the Musée national d’Art moderne 24/08/2009
Of the 23 sculptures presented at the Centre Pompidou in the exhibition of works by Henri Gaudier-Brzeska belonging to the collections of the Musée national d’Art modern, only five are authentic.
Louyse Moillon. Still-lifes in the Grand Siècle. Catalogue raisonné 20/04/2009
Some books defy critical review. It would be easier to simply not even attempt it and brush them off politely but this has not been our choice of solution. The lack of a monographic study on Louise Moillon (we continue to prefer this (...)
Three exhibitions currently showing : Moreau, Dessins français, Impressionnisme 04/05/2010
The only fault of the exhibitions generally held at the Fondation Custodia is that they are too short. This one, although based on its own collections, follows the rule as it will have lasted only two months whereas New Yorkers were able to (...)
The Focillon Scholarship is threatened 28/01/2009
For the last few decades, the Focillon scholarship, bearing the name of the famous art historian Henri Focillon (1881-1943), has enabled French art historians
A predella panel by Sano di Pietro for the Uffizi 14/09/2008
Thanks to a generous donation from the former president of Fiat, Paolo Fresco, and his wife the Uffizi Gallery in Florence recently received a panel from a predella by Sano di Pietro representing
Devastating Earthquake in Emilia, Italy 25/05/2012
The earthquake which took place in Emilia on the night of Saturday the 19th, early morning of Sunday the 20th of May, followed by several aftershocks, unfortunately resulted in the death of several victims as well as the destruction or severe (...)
A double portrait by John Francis Rigaud acquired by the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra 20/10/2009
Born in Turin amidst a French Protestant family, John Francis Rigaud spent the better part of his career in England where he arrived in 1771 at the age of 29. Specialized in portraits and historical paintings, he became a member of the Royal (...)
Drawings discovered on back of Leonardo’s Saint Anne 18/12/2008
During a recent removal of The Virgin with the Child Jesus and Saint Anne for examination by the C2RMF, Sylvain Laveissière, général curator at the Département des peintures at the Louvre noticed the presence of drawings on the back of the (...)
New galleries open at the Musée d’Orsay 02/02/2009
As announced at a press conference last 4th September (see article), the Musée d’Orsay recently inaugurated several rooms in what was previously the lobby of the building (north-west corner). These new spaces, adjacent to the reception (...)
A Burne-Jones tapestry donated to the Musée d’Orsay 24/02/2009
The Yves Saint-Laurent and Pierre Bergé auction has given rise to last minute negotiations.
The Buren columns are being restored while the Victor Louis colonnade is collapsing… 14/02/2009
Whether or not one appreciates the Buren columns, the sight at the Palais-Royal is absolutely surrealistic.
A call against the appointment of the former McDonald’s chief as head of Italian museums 19/11/2008
France was the first country to establish a system, under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture, for leasing its masterpieces out on a large scale to foreign museums. We had warned of the danger of setting a precedent, as the Louvre in (...)
Jacques Androuet du Cerceau 05/04/2010
Architecture is the most difficult art form to exhibit since it cannot be moved and thus has to be evoked in various ways so as not to bore visitors with the same uninspiring plans and engravings.
A Bust Attributed to Leone Leoni Acquired by the Museum of the Order of Saint John 16/01/2012
Founded after the capture of Jerusalem by the Crusaders in 1099, the Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem experienced a tumultuous history. Having settled in Cyprus in 1291, after the occupation of Palestine by Islamic forces, then (...)
A Landscape by Jacob Ruysdael Sold to the Kimbell by an Oxford College 09/03/2014
The Kimbell Museum in Fort Worth which makes few purchases but always masterpieces, recently announced the acquisition of a landscape by Jacob Ruisdael, Edge of a Forest with a Grainfield, to join a large seascape by the same artist already in (...)
The Prince of Liechtenstein’s bronzes exhibited at the Kugel Gallery 14/09/2008
In 2004 the Liechtenstein Museum opened its doors in Vienna. Over the last few years the Prince of Lichtenstein had become more active in his acquisitions policy, making him one of the most important European buyers of classical (...)
Call for patrons for the Portrait of Count Molé by Ingres 03/02/2009
The Journal Officiel today published a call for patrons in the business world for the acquisition by the Louvre of the
Saint John the Baptist by Leonardo moves on to Rome 13/01/2010
After a month-long exhibition in Milan, the Saint John the Baptist by Leonardo da Vinci from the Louvre is being presented, from 1st to 31st January, at the Palazzo Venezia in Rome as part of the show Il Potere e la Grazia. I Santi Patroni (...)
Callet’s Jupiter and Ceres acquired by Boston 23/07/2008
Antoine Francois Callet’s morceau d’agrement, which we had reported as having reappeared at an auction in Belgium
Website for Musée de l’Histoire de France posted online 17/12/2008
The public establishment of Versailles in its continuing endeavor to enhance the Musée de l’Histoire de France through its restoration is offering increased access to the general public by (...)
View of Amsterdam by Jacob van Ruisdael for the Historisch Museum in Amsterdam 16/10/2008
The Historical Museum in Amsterdam has acquired a canvas by Jacob van Ruisdael representing A View of Amsterdam
A Painting by Giovanni Boulanger Acquired by Troyes 29/02/2012
Born in Troyes, Jean (or Giovanni) Boulanger left for Italy at a young age but, unlike many of his fellow artists, never returned to France, spending his entire career south of the Alps. After passing through Guido Reni’s studio, he placed (...)
Antoine Rivalz painting purchased by the Musée des Augustins de Toulouse 22/12/2008
Last 12 December at Drouot (Cornette de Saint Cyr SVV sale), the museum in Toulouse preempted a canvas by Antoine Rivalz, a native of that city, representing
Endangered museums (4) : the Musée de l’Assistance Publique 13/09/2010
Last 6th June, Frédéric Mitterand was scheduled to visit, as part of the operation « Rendez-vous au jardin », the gardens of the Hôtel Miramion, which houses the Musée de l’Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), as announced in the official (...)
For the Love of Art. French Artists and Art Lovers in 18th century Rome 10/04/2012
Over the course of the 18th century, despite several exceptions, notably that of Venice, Italy’s artistic stardom began to fade and its dominance to recede in favor of French painting. For this reason, the history of French artists who traveled (...)
The chief architect at Fontainebleau dismissed 11/01/2009
A year ago, we had denounced on this same site the ongoing scandal at the chateau de Fontainebleau where the Chief Architect for Monuments Historiques (ACMH), Jacques Moulin, “was restoring” in his own manner the Quartier Henri IV, notably by (...)
A Savonnerie rug acquired by Versailles 03/11/2008
While Versailles is on the point of acquiring, through patronage, a Savonnerie rug commissioned by Louis XV for the chapel in the Chateau
UNESCO Exhibits Works Recovered by Italy 20/06/2012
UNESCO headquarters in Paris is currently holding an exhibition of about thirty art works recovered by the Italian carabinieri which have been returned to museums on the peninsula. The most important objects are undoubtedly the vases found in (...)
Ines de Castro by Franciso Vieira should be acquired by the Museu d’Arte Antiga in Lisbon 30/08/2008
The presence at auction in Paris on 25 June 2008 (Pierre Bergé & Associés) of a canvas by the Portuguese painter Francisco Vieira Portuense representing
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