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The latest news in the History of Western Art from the Middle Age to the 1930's
The Petit Palais restores its garlands 05/07/2008
When the Petit Palais reopened in 2005, we had been especially critical of the building’s restoration, commenting on the missing gilded garlands which originally decorated the portico
Recent acquisitions by the Metropolitan Museum : Italian drawings 03/02/2011
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has acquired a considerable number of drawings over the past few years, and it would be almost impossible to cover the subject in an exhaustive manner. We will post an acquisition database in the next few months (...)
The Hornstein Donation in Montreal (2) 02/11/2012
We had already begun to publish the extraordinary donation of 70 old master paintings made to the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Montreal by Michal and Renata Hornstein. In that same article we provided a brief list of the artists represented and (...)
The Rembrandt which reappeared last year in England is authentic 29/06/2008
In October 2007, we pointed out the appearance, in a small British auction house, of a portrait representing Rembrandt but ascribed to one of his “followers”,
Censored ! 15/03/2009
A few weeks ago the French public television channel, Arte, wanted to interview me on the show Metropolis for a program on culture in Abu Dhabi and particularly the Louvre satellite to open there. They were, in their own words, “having a hard (...)
Acceptance in Lieu of Ary Scheffer for the Louvre 13/05/2013
Thanks to a donation of "acceptance in lieu", the Musée du Louvre has just added a superb tableau by Ary Scheffer, representing Ruth and Naomi to its collections. This panel still has its beautiful original frame showing quotes from the book of (...)
Insulted Publicly by the Mayor of Lens 12/06/2012
Not satisfied with having prevented me from participating in a debate organized by the association Les Obsédés Textuels which had invited me to the media center in Lens, the mayor of the city insulted me publicly in the 8 June 2012 issue of (...)
Serres d’Auteuil : Delanoë’s Pyrrhic victory 14/02/2011
No doubt the Mayor of Paris will gloat about his « victory » in the media. The Fédération française de tennis has indeed decided (70% in the third round of voting) to stay in Paris and extend the location of the Roland-Garros tournament into the (...)
François Hollande’s Tax Measures : A Fatal Threat to Historical Heritage 25/08/2012
The Art Tribune does not take political stands. We are here to denounce threats to historical heritage from both the left and the right. As such, we did not spare previous governments, eliciting accusations of "leftist" by one or two readers (...)
ENI, vidi, Vinci 03/12/2009
ENI, an Italian firm, is one of the world’s largest petroleum companies. Its turnover in 2008 totaled 108 billion euros resulting in profits of 8.8 billion. ENI, thus has money, lots of it, which it uses at times as an arts patron. Thus the (...)
I, the President of the French Republic, Will Appoint Martine Aubry as Head of the Louvre ! 25/03/2013
Le Figaro Magazine published it "confidentially" last weekend, but the name had been rumored for several weeks already, practically since Henri Loyrette announced he did not wish to renew his position as president of the Louvre. We knew it but (...)
The Musée de Quimper adds a painting by Georges Lacombe to its collection 09/11/2009
A student of the Académie Julian starting in 1890, Georges Lacombe was joined there by Emile Bernard and Paul Sérusier in 1892. A sculptor as well as a painter, he quickly joined the Synthetism movement, strongly influenced by the art of Paul (...)
Lyon Wishes to Acquire Two Fragonard Works, Listed as National Treasures 10/12/2012
The Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyon is closing its fundraising drive for the purchase of an Ingres painting on 15 December, but it is continuing its ambitious acquisitions policy as announced yesterday in the Journal Officiel with the launch of a (...)
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 (...)
We regularly point out works banned for export temporarily from the United Kingdom ; these usually end up leaving the country due to lack of funds for purchase. Once again recently, a canvas by (...)
Recent acquisitions by the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Montreal : old paintings and 19th century 22/09/2010
On its one hundred-fiftieth anniversary, the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montreal has launched a major campaign seeking the donation of 150 works. One of the most important gifts, thanks to the generosity of Michal and Renata Hornstein, is a superb (...)
Return of Christ in the Tomb by Claus de Werve to the cathedral in Langres 31/08/2008
Before 1789, the cathedral in Langres held a sculpted group from the early 15th century representing the
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
The Mayor of Lens Censures The Art Tribune 06/06/2012
We had already been boycotted by a Minister from the political right, Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres, who prevented us from participating in the press conferences at the French Ministry of Culture, and been censured by the president of a public (...)
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 (...)
Amaury Lefébure appointed Director of Malmaison 10/09/2008
It always helps to look on the bright side of things. Thus, the appointment of an administrator from the ENA (French National Administration School) which had been seriously considered by the Ministry of (...)
Waldmüller and Poyer : Three Acquisitions for the Département des Arts Graphiques 16/01/2014
Museums rarely announce their recent acquisitions. Nevertheless, the Louvre has just published a press release listing several donations and purchases which we had already mentioned (the two paintings by Michel-Ange Challe, the Lamentation by (...)
More acquisitions for Orsay 27/08/2008
A few months ago, we had presented the latest Symbolist acquisitions made by the Musée d’Orsay.
Dess|e|ins italiens (Italian Drawings) 31/08/2008
The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon’s graphic collection is not well-known and generally speaking underrated, except for 19th century French drawings which have been showcased in several exhibitions and publications. It would be surprising, however, (...)
The Treasure of Pouilly-sur-Meuse Exhibited at Ecouen 12/06/2012
In late 2009, the Musée Lorrain in Nancy was fortunate enough to add an exceptional ensemble of Renaissance silver discovered by accident in Pouilly-sur-Meuse in 2006 to its collections, just a few days before it was to be dispersed at Sotheby’s (...)
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
The Palais de la Porte Dorée threatened by a Tadashi Kawamata construction 08/10/2009
One of the most beautiful buildings from the 1930’s, the former Musée des Arts Africains et Océaniens, and today the « Cité de l’Immigration » is in serious danger.
Félicie de Fauveau Exhibited at Orsay 13/06/2013
The exhibition Félicie de Fauveau has now opened its doors in Paris after having been at the Historial de Vendée. We should begin by making this observation : we had seen the Orsay catalogue in proofs only, without the appendices. And contrary (...)
Carpeaux’s Ugolin in Compiègne Restored 27/05/2013
The Musée du Second Empire at the château in Compiègne owns several works by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, including a large plaster sculpture representing the group of Ugolino, surrounded by his children. The subject, drawn from Canto XXXIII of Dante’s (...)
La Liberté Vandalized at the Louvre in Lens 11/02/2013
A terse press release from the Louvre has just confirmed the news which had spread on Twitter last night : a woman visiting the Louvre-Lens scribbled an inscription with a marker on the lower part of La Liberté Guidant le Peuple by Delacroix and (...)
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 (...)
Simon Vouet en Italie 03/01/2012
The proceedings from the Simon Vouet colloquium in Italy organized at the same time as the remarkable exhibition by Dominique Jacquot and Adeline Collange at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Nantes were published recently and are just as fascinating. (...)
After Caravaggio and Leonardo, Courbet 10/02/2013
Once again, an extraordinary "rediscovery" of an art work is creating sensational headlines and is spreading like wildfire in the media which has decidedly still not learned its lesson. The joke here is that the real findings, that of a sublime (...)
A painting by Thomas Lawrence acquired by the National Portrait Gallery in London 31/07/2009
The London museum has just acquired, for £178, 500, with the help of the Art Fund, a portrait of the actor and theatre director John Philip Kemble in the title role of the play Cato, a tragedy by Joseph (...)
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 (...)
A Painting by Gagneraux and Drawings by Naigeon for Dijon 16/10/2012
A rather mediocre painter, François Devosge, born in Dijon, has gone down in history as the founder of the Ecole de Dessin in this city and the many talented students he trained there. Among these, (besides François Rude and Pierre-Paul Prud’hon) (...)
A Titian for the Ashmolean Museum 10/07/2009
Thanks to an Acceptance in Lieu and the sum of 180,000£ provided by The Art Fund, the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford has just enriched its collections with a painting by Titian, Love Triumphs over (...)
The Louvre Increasingly More (Radio) Active in Japan 16/01/2012
The Louvre will be sending about twenty works from all its departments (except Arts Graphiques) to three Japanese cities from 20 April to 17 September 2012 staying a little over a month at each stop[[The dates were provided by the Louvre. The (...)
Numerous Errors in the 3D Animations at the Château in Versailles 16/06/2012
Bernard Hasquenoph, from the very useful site Louvre pour tous, was the first one to see it : the 3D animations, which take up a considerable amount of space in the new history rooms at Versailles are partly false. Here are some of the most (...)
Isabelle Lemesle Resigns from the Centre des Monuments Nationaux 07/06/2012
President of the Centre des Monuments Nationaux since 2008 - and re-appointed in 2011 - Isabelle Lemesle has just resigned from her position. In fact, there is no doubt in anyone’s mind that this was imposed on her due to the political change in (...)
The Lugt, a dictionary of collection marks, posts its new edition online 25/03/2010
Frits Lugt, who created the Fondation Custodia, is undoubtedly most remembered for his dictionary of collection marks which is in fact usually known by its proper name. The Lugt has thus been used by generations of collectors, art historians (...)
A Guercino for the Kimbell Art Museum 05/05/2010
The American museum has just purchased its first painting by Guercino, Christ and the Woman of Samaria, dated 1619-1620, a rather early work by the Italian master. This period is characterized by a style close to Caravaggisme in its narrow (...)
The Publications of the Ecole française de Rome online at Persée 04/01/2013
The Ecole française de Rome publishes extensively (colloquia proceedings, theses...) in subjects covering a wide range of fields, including art history. It also edits a journal, Les Mélanges de l’Ecole française de Rome in different series (...)
Laurent Pécheux Works Recently Acquired by Museums 21/08/2012
A look at the catalogue of the Laurent Pécheux retrospective enables us to discover several acquisitions made since 2008 of works by this artist which we had not learned of earlier and thus had not mentioned here. The exhibition now provides us (...)
The Virgin with Child and Saint John the Baptist by Eustache Le Sueur returns to the Louvre 20/09/2010
Our article, France’s Hidden Museum, did not claim to provide a complete list of all the works unfairly deposited by museums in places where they did not legitimately belong.
A Painting by Luca Penni Acquired by the Louvre 08/01/2013
Thanks to a chance offering on the art market, an extremely rare occurrence since there are very few painted works by Lucas Penni still preserved, the Musée du Louvre acquired a painting by this master (from the Jan Muller Antiques gallery in (...)
Raphael, Murillo, Pierino da Vinci… An update on export bans in the United Kingdom 14/08/2010
We have already spoken on several occasions about the British system of exporting art works. Export bans are much shorter than in France, lasting only three months, unless a British purchaser comes forward with the firm intention of buying the (...)
Numerous Donations for the Musée de la Vie Romantique 04/01/2013
Now that Daniel Marchesseau, director here since 1999, will soon be retiring in February 2013, the Musée de la Vie Romantique is taking stock of the acquisitions made during this period, a particularly impressive record. The curator’s wise (...)
The Virgin of the Rocks by Leonardo da Vinci restored in London 19/07/2010
he National Gallery in London has just finished restoring the Virgin of the Rocks by Leonardo da Vinci which is now once again on display to the public since Wednesday, 14 July 2010.
The Cupid attributed to Michelangelo deposited at the Metropolitan Museum 23/06/2009
he cultural services of the French Embassy in the United States are located on 5th Avenue, not far from the Metropolitan Museum and the Frick Collection.
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