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Henry Cros (1840-1907). Sculptor and draughtsman‘Henry Cros, sculptor and draughtsman’, as the exhibition is titled, but also a painter, glassmaker and ceramist, of whom Rodin wrote in the preface to the catalogue of his sale after his death in…
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The ‘Géricault’ horsesAn exhibition presented in a museum must be exemplary, and even more so when it shows many works from private collections. A ‘gallery’ is not a ‘private collection’, and while it is perfectly…
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Frans Hals in AmsterdamThose accustomed to the Dutch museum’s exhibitions will not be disappointed: this is first and foremost the absolute joy of painting, the dazzling freedom of the brushstrokes, the admirable…
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Predictions. Artists face the futureLa sibylle de Panzoust dévoilait à ses visiteurs d’abord leur avenir puis son postérieur. Panurge vint la trouver pour s’avoir s’il devait se marier. Après avoir ausculté des feuilles d’arbres «elle se…
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Théodore Rousseau (1812-1867). The voice of the forestThéodore Rousseau (1812-1867). La voix de la forêt Paris, Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, from 5 March to 7 July 2024. Relegated to the rank of ‘tartouillades’, ‘bastard…
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Great decors restored from Notre-Dame de ParisThe exhibition that the Louvre should have organised is finally being staged by the Mobilier national, and so much the better, as its spaces are perfectly suited to hanging large-format…
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Impossible to escape the Olympic Games"There may be some who would like to do something else..." suggested Raymond Devos, a French comedian, in a falsely ingenuous tone in a sketch entitled "Faites l’amour, pas la guerre" ("Make love,…
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Sarah Bernhardt. And the woman created the star"I’m not sure that Madame Sarah Bernhardt, at the point she’s at, is still able to find the right intonation to say "Good morning Sir, how are you?" She needs the extraordinary to be herself" The…
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An exhibition on the Alps as a frontierIt was 2012: the plans-reliefs were the subject of a high-profile and very expensive exhibition at the Grand Palais. At the time we wrote an article: "Musée des Plans-Reliefs: an exhibition. After…
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Promenades on paperThere’s nothing like a summer on the banks of the Loire to restore your strength after a harsh American winter, even if you might prefer "Promenades on Paper" to "Promenades de papier", especially…
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Manet and Degas, from the Musée d’Orsay (and the Met) to the Bibliothèque nationaleWith its hand on its heart and its mind preoccupied with soaring insurance and transport costs, the Musée d’Orsay swears that we won’t be seeing such a collection again any time soon, brought in…
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Saint Francis of AssisiDevoting an exhibition to an iconographic theme is a good thing, because our contemporaries are often ignorant of both the religious history and the mythology on which our civilisation is based.…
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Under the gaze of Medusa. From ancient Greece to the digital artsThe Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen’s Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen is home to Medusa, the Gorgon with whistling hair and petrifying eyes. The unbearable sight of Medusa has been abundantly depicted…
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Gli spagnoli a Napoli. Il Rinascimento meridionaleWe only saw the exhibition a few days ago, and it closes this Sunday. We had heard great things about it, which is why we didn’t want to miss it, and the advice we received was excellent, as the…
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Juan de Pareja, Afro-Hispanic PainterFifty three years after the Metropolitan Museum acquired Diego Velázquez’ Portrait of Juan de Pareja at Christie’s in November 1970 for a record price of £2,310,000 ($5,544,000), the museum has…
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Léon Monet, brother of the artist and collectorLéon Monet, brother of the artist and collector. The subject is new, the personality just exhumed. After more than a century of posthumous oblivion, omitted by the teeming bibliography attached to…
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A Caravaggesque spring at VersaillesSent to board in Amiens for the duration of the "Louis XV, passions d’un roi" exhibition, the "masterpieces from the King’s bedroom" naturally returned to Versailles in the spring, although they…
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Antoine Caron, an exhibition at the Château d’ÉcouenThe excellent retrospective exhibition devoted by the Château d’Écouen to the painter Antoine Caron, in addition to its many qualities, boasts an extraordinary feat that should encourage any art…
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Aristide Maillol: la quête de l’harmonieLa Piscine in Roubaix is certainly the ideal place to host the last stage of the excellent Maillol retrospective discovered at the Musée d’Orsay last year and then proposed at the Kunsthaus in…
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Cecco del CaravaggioThe Batistello Caracciolo exhibition in Naples last year, which we were lucky enough to see but did not write about, Theodoor Rombouts in Ghent, soon Finson in Marseilles, which we are…
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Two rich exhibitions tell the story of the Wars of ReligionBecause the clash of arms was never far from the splendour of the Renaissance, the Wars of Religion have retained a prominent place in our collective memory: thanks to Alexandre Dumas and then…
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Naples for passion. Masterworks from the De Vito collectionWe were probably among the first in France to talk about the De Vito Foundation, housed in the Villa di Olmo in the Tuscan countryside a few kilometres from Florence, which preserves a remarkable…
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Process: Design Drawings from the Rijksmuseum 1500-1900Drawings for forks, chandeliers, stoves and mirrors? If the former Hôtel Turgot has always been home to furniture and objects, it is nonetheless a paradoxical exhibition that is stopping by the…
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De BentvueghelsConnaissez-vous Orlando, Bockbaert, Vrijman, Heremyt, Inamorato, Ratel ou Orizzonte ? Pour le dernier, vous pensez peut-être à Jan Frans van Bloemen et vous vous rapprochez. Car ce peintre fut…
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Pastels. From Millet to RedonNo, blurring is not the essence of pastel. It would be absurd to consider that this coloured stick is only good for reproducing "anything pink, silk or gauze". And the landscape painter Camille…
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Giovanni Bellini. Cross-influencesHow can you recognise the genius of a painter without seeing the diversity of his work? It is true that the Madonnas and the Child were Bellini’s stock in trade, and he not only multiplied his…
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Swedish EcstasyFive years ago, we discovered the art of Hilma af Klint, a Swedish painter from the end of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century, whose works were linked to spiritualism. This…