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A first Renoir for the Ulster MuseumThis is an exceptional acquisition, the first Renoir for the Ulster Museum, The Lane in the Wood is also the first French Impressionist painting to enter a public collection in Northern Ireland.…
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Several paintings put up for sale by TajanThe shadow of the great masters hangs over the Tajan sale on 21 June in Paris, which brings together several paintings whose attribution is not certain, but whose quality is undeniable. This is…
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Józef Chełmoński (Josef Chelmonski, 1849-1914)The National Museum in Warsaw is preparing the catalogue raisonné of the work of Polish painter Józef Chełmoński (Josef Chelmonski, 1849-1914). The book will accompany the monographic exhibition…
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The Vallayer-Coster acquired by the National Gallery of Art in WashingtonThe painting is superb, that’s for sure. It is painted by a woman, no less. This still life by Anne Vallayer-Coster was therefore the perfect choice for acquisition by the National Gallery of Art…
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A landscape by Patel preempted by the Musée du Grand SiècleThis was undoubtedly one of the finest pictures at Christie’s Paris sale on 15 June, but it was nevertheless sold for less than the low estimate. Such are the vagaries of auctions. Be that as it…
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A Medusa by Böcklin for the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of ArtWatching its victims from one fair to the next, from Frieze Masters to Tefaf, this striking effigy of Medusa waited until the last edition of the Maastricht fair to strike the emissaries of the…
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A first painting by Cézanne for the National Gallery of IrelandThe National Gallery of Ireland - which Caroline Campbell took over from Sean Rainbird last November - has acquired its first painting by Paul Cézanne. Life in the Fields was acquired from the…
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Print Quarterly Volume XL - numéro 2 - June 2023Contents Helen Pierce, The Pope and the Grindstone: A Jacobean Satirical Print Kee Il Choi Jr., Watteau and Boucher Conjoined: Imagining China in Marquetry Lesley Fulton, Johann Heinrich…
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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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Paintings for sale at Christie’s in ParisSometimes painters choose to work without color, playing only with shades of black and white, or brown. Christie’s will be selling a large-format grisaille in Paris on June 15. It depicts the Last…
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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 relief by Armand Point for the Musée des Arts décoratifsPeintre symboliste adepte de la Rose-Croix, Armand Point fut un créateur atypique dont on apprécie bien plus volontiers aujourd’hui les objets d’arts que les tableaux. Après avoir débuté une carrière…
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Paintings auctions at Sotheby’sSeveral 17th century masterpieces will be auctioned by Sotheby’s in Paris on 13 and 14 June, but the most important paintings from different periods will be sold in London in July. Some of them…
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Two collections put up for sale by Sotheby’s and Artcurial in ParisThe Paris art market is still buzzing in June. In addition to the sales of paintings, to which we will return later, Sotheby’s and Artcurial will be auctioning two collections, one of sculptures…
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A terracotta model by François Anguier at auctionThis is certainly a masterpiece that deserves to be declared a National Treasure and added to French public collections. Designed by François Anguier, the funerary monument of Jacques de Souvré,…
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Lie!On Tuesday 6 June, the Paris Council held a debate on the City Hall’s plan to redevelop the surroundings of Notre-Dame. Emmanuel Grégoire, the first deputy mayor, once again repeated an incredible…
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The few words we’ll be writing about CarnacThe case was revealed by the "Sites & Monuments" association and made the front page of many newspapers and TV channels: work was carried out on a site in Carnac without following the INRAP…
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Four exhibitions in Paris galleriesJune promises to be a particularly busy month for the Paris art market, with a cascade of public sales (article to follow) and several exhibitions organised by galleries. The opening of a new one…
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A painting by Adrìa Gual acquired by OrsayHighly acclaimed last November at Paris Fine Arts & La Biennale, where it was presented by the Mendes gallery, Adrià Gual’s large canvas of Joan of Arc has been acquired by the Musée d’Orsay.…
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Histoire de l’Art. Sommaire du numéro 91, juin 2023Ukraine Introduction Bertrand Cosnet, Dominique de Font-Réaulx et Igor Sokologorsky, Ukraine. Une histoire de l’art face à la guerre Perspectives Jannic Durand, Les premiers édifices…
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Strasbourg’s Vouet restoredIt is one of the masterpieces of the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg, but visitors were desperate to be able to admire the Saint Catherine by Simon Vouet, acquired in 2019. A delicate…
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Stockholm buys its first painting by Marguerite GérardAdjudicataire malheureux de L’Élève intéressante aussitôt préemptée par le Louvre lors de la vente de la collection Ribes chez Sotheby’s à Paris en décembre 2019, le musée suédois ne pouvait que repartir…
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The Fontainebleau woke festivalWe are very fond of the Festival de l’histoire de l’art, an annual three-day event that brings together a wide range of players from the museum, university, heritage and market worlds, as well as…
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A drawing by Jean-Baptiste Oudry for the Château de FontainebleauThe third day of the Festival de l’histoire de l’art was brightened by some excellent news: just as the event was drawing to a close, the Château de Fontainebleau sent an emissary to the sale…
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Louvre: paper catalogue also available to download free of chargePublishing books on the internet - we did this recently thanks to Thierry Zimmer who entrusted us with his catalogue raisonné on the nineteenth-century painter Antoine Rivoulon (which you can…
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A painting by Beccafumi for the Pinacoteca di SienaSince February, this Italian museum, now run by a Frenchman, the former director of the Musée des Augustins in Toulouse, Axel Hémery, has been showing a new painting by the 16th-century Sienese…
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"The museum has been very generous!""The museum has been very generous!" It is not uncommon to hear this phrase from exhibition curators to point out that this or that important work has been loaned, or that many of the objects on…
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A painting by Edward Mitchell Bannister for WorcesterSlavery had been abolished for almost thirty years when Edward Mitchell Bannister painted this work, which at first sight seems to depict an idyllic nature or at least a picturesque country…
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A first sculpture by Camille Claudel for StockholmAlthough its collections include a fine group of sculptures and drawings by Auguste Rodin, the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm previously held no works by his pupil, assistant and companion Camille…
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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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Threats to the heritage of the Faubourg Saint-AntoineThe under-protection of France’s heritage, particularly in Paris, the incomprehensible lack of "sites patrimoniaux remarquables" in the capital with the exception of those in the 7th…
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A painting by Carlos Luis de Ribera for the Museo del Romanticismo in MadridBoth a history painter and a portraitist, the Spaniard Carlos Luis de Ribera y Fieve enjoyed success during his lifetime and led a brilliant career. His work is often compared with that of…
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A painting by Mattia Preti enters the National Gallery in WashingtonAt the end of January 2023, Sotheby’s New York sold several 17th century paintings, notably Italian, from the Fisch-Davidson collection. Some of them have found their way into museums: we reported…
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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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A marble by Félicie de Fauveau for the Currier Museum of Art"This marble must say that it was made for the best and noblest servant of the Prince and that a Chouan made it": these words by Félicie de Fauveau about a bust of the Duke of Bordeaux wonderfully…
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A first work by Giuseppe Abbati for the MetropolitanThe Metropolitan Museum’s renowned collection of European paintings has been enriched with its first work by Giuseppe Abbati, one of the leading exponents of the Macchiaioli. Acquired from the…
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Research announcement: hangings for the Hôtel des InvalidesAs part of the creation of permanent rooms, entitled "L’Hôtel des Invalides, entre histoire et mémoire" which constitutes phase I of its MINERVE extension project as well as the redevelopment of its…
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A painting by Niccolò Betti donated to the UffiziIn memory of his father, Alfredo Moretti, a famous Tuscan art dealer, Fabrizio Moretti, Secretary General of the Florence International Biennial of Antiquaries, has donated to the Uffizi Museum a…
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"The Holy Trinity" in dangerThe Moscow Patriarchate recently announced that, "in response to numerous requests from Orthodox believers", President Vladimir V. Putin has decided to return to the Church the famous icon of the…
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Orsay acquires a bust by MaillolOn private loan, it was presented during the first two Parisian and Zurich stages of the remarkable Maillol retrospective exhibition which will end in Roubaix in a few days. The terracotta bust…
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A painting by Jacques Stella given to the LouvreJacques Stella depicted the Saint Family on several occasions, varying the number of figures from one version to another. One of his paintings, intended for private devotion, features Mary, Jesus…
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It is time to respect the Louvre ColonnadeA meeting was organized today at the Paris Centre City Hall by its mayor Ariel Weil to launch a reflection on the "Place du Louvre," an inappropriate term since this one, which is in front of the…
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A first painting by Edelfelt for the Petit PalaisA familiar image in French school textbooks, the Portrait of Louis Pasteur by Albert Edelfelt was paradoxically much better known in this country than its author, who was nevertheless the first…
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Interview with Roberta Olson and Alexander Johnson about their donation to YaleRoberta Olson and Alexander Johnson have made a very significant gift of a collection of Italian Ottocento drawings to the Yale University Art Gallery. We discuss this collection in an article…
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A donation of Italian drawings from the Ottocento to YaleThe New Haven Museum has just received a major acquisition: an entire collection of nineteenth-century Italian drawings has been donated and sold by New York collectors Roberta Olson and…
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A painting by Cornelis de Baellieur for KasselThe Gemäldegalerie in Kassel received as a gift from a collector last year a painting by the Flemish painter Cornelis de Baellieur depicting the Christ Carrying His Cross, painted on copper and of…
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Two pieces of furniture from Marie-Antoinette return to VersaillesScrutinised with attention by a number of connoisseurs, the astonishing "Jacques Garcia, Intemporel" sale held at Sotheby’s in Paris on Tuesday afternoon certainly disappointed a few hopes -…
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The Martinez Report: the end of the inalienability of French museum collections?It is necessary to read the report entitled «Patrimoine partagé : universalité, restitutions et circulation des œuvres d’art» written by the honorary president-director of the Louvre, Jean-Luc…
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The Fitzwilliam Museum is looking for its "Empowering Culture Program Manager"This is a very curious position that the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge has just opened, and it released the job description a few days ago. The job description, which consists of running a…
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Lyon gets a new Fleury RichardFleury Richard is credited with the invention of a new style that was later called troubadour painting, the first example of which was his Valentine of Milan mourning the death of her husband,…