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La Tribune de l’Art is now bilingual, in French and EnglishLa Tribune de l’Art is an online news magazine specialising in art history and heritage from the Middle Ages to the 1930s. It has been in existence for twenty years, and from now on it will also…
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A painting by Rachel Ruysch and Michiel van Musscher for the Metropolitan Museum of Art18/5/23 - Acquisition - New York, Metropolitan Museum - At a time when American and European museums have made the acquisition of female artists a top priority, the European Paintings department…
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Two paintings by Sartorio acquired by OrsayA protean Roman artist who was a painter, sculptor, illustrator, architect, photographer, writer and film-maker, Giulio Aristide Sartorio was largely ignored by French critics and remained a…
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Research announcement : Jean-Jacques Lagrenée, dit le jeune (1739-1821)After having published the monograph of Louis Lagrenée, known as the elder, with Arthena, I am working on that of his brother, Jean-Jacques Lagrenée, known as the…
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A painting by Pedro Orrente acquired by the PradoAdonis is the fruit of incest, born of the union of Myrrha with her own father, Cinyras, king of Cyprus. The arrogant Cinyras had claimed that his daughter’s beauty surpassed that of Aphrodite.…
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Summary of the Bulletin du Musée Ingres Bourdelle n° 95 - Mars 2023Eric Pagliano, « Le vieux linge » de Raphaël et le « Bolivar » d’Ingres Françoise heilbrun, Les Ingres de Paul-Arthur Chéramy Sylvain Bédard, Ingres et ses amis médailleurs Emilie Bonnard, Les…
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Summary of The Burlington Magazine - n° 1441 vol CLXV - April 2023Van Gogh’s obelisks Editorial Politics versus archaeology in Paris Articles Furio Rinaldi, Newly attributed drawings by Botticelli Joost Vander Auwera, The young Jordaens Gauvin…
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Restoration of the Porte Dorée at the Château de FontainebleauWhat remains of the original decoration? The 16th-century frescoes that adorn the Porte Dorée of the Château de Fontainebleau are in a sorry state, victims of the passage of time, climatic…
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The Musée d’Orsay buys a new GérômeWhile Jean-Léon Gérôme is not uncommon on the art market, it was a puzzling effigy that awaited enthusiasts on the Gallery 19C booth at the last Tefaf in Maastricht: this Child with a Mask intrigues…
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The bay horse of Henri IV arrives in Paut was undoubtedly one of the most beautiful paintings of the Talabardon & Gautier sales, which we had already spotted on their gallery stand during the 2017 edition of Tefaf New York devoted…
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Benin bronzes from German museums returned to the private sectorOnly the naive (to put it mildly) will be surprised. It was bound to happen, and it is happening even sooner than we thought: a massive restitution operation has turned into a farce, and works…
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Surroundings of Notre-Dame: facts versus propagandaThe defense of the gardens of Notre-Dame is also a battle of communication. Thus, the article by Claire Bommelaer in Le Figaro, very factual and well informed, was titled - in the print edition:…
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A portrait by Gerrit van Honthorst returns to Dessau-WörlitzLong considered lost, a large and beautiful painting painted in 1635 by Gerrit van Honthorst was presented at Oranienbaum Castle a few weeks ago following its "purchase" by the Kulturstiftung…
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Surroundings of Notre-Dame: the CNPA wants to keep the gatesLa CNPA (Commission nationale de l’architecture et du patrimoine) se réunissait donc ce matin pour aborder la question des abords de Notre-Dame. Le problème de ce type de commissions est qu’elles…
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A Peasant by Dalou enters the MetAimé-Jules Dalou saw himself as an artisan, belonging to the working class. A fervent republican, his sculptures bore witness to an artistic project in keeping with his human convictions. For him,…
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The law that imposes gates around Square Jean XXIIIThanks to social networks, some Internet users can quickly disseminate vital information that can help advance heritage protection issues. For example, a Twitter account that prefers to remain…
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Three preemptions from Orléans at the Talabardon & Gautier saleOf the 14 museum preemptions at the Talabardon & Gautier sales on 21 and 23 March, we have already dealt with six. Thanks to this news item, and to the once again remarkable activity of the…
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Sargent’s painting donated to the Norton MuseumIt is difficult to perceive the adventuress behind this vaporous woman who poses in her elegant white dress, pearls around her neck, a large flowered hat at the end of her black-gloved arm, while…
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Open letter from associations about the Notre-Dame surroundingsAs part of the major national project to rebuild Notre-Dame de Paris, the City of Paris has planned to redevelop the areas around the cathedral that extend from the square to the eastern end of…
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Muriel Barbier on her way to FontainebleauFor the first time, a specialist in the history of the decorative arts has been named "directeur du patrimoine et des collections" ("director of heritage and collections") at "the house of…
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Orsay and CourbetOn 4 June, the Rouillac auction house will be offering a painting, La Grande Baigneuse, described as "the largest nude by Courbet to be presented at auction" and even "his last nude". This work…
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Italy taxes photographs even for researchersLa révolte gronde dans le milieu de l’histoire de l’art en Italie, et avec d’excellentes raisons. Le nouveau ministre de la Culture (Ministro dei Beni Culturali), Gennaro Sangiuliano, arrivé au…
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Surroundings of Notre-Dame: the fake news of Emmanuel Grégoire (3): the disappeared benchesIn our series on the fake news spread by Paris City Hall, we can go back to the title of the first article because this time Emmanuel Grégoire, the mayor’s first deputy, is clear and martial on a…
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In Réunion, a sculpture removed ?On 14 June 2020, when the destruction of sculptures was in full swing, the French President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron stated: "no statue will be removed". However, this is what the French…
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Surroundings of Notre-Dame. The fake news of the Paris City Hall (2): the remarkable tree cut downWe have changed the title of our second article on the Paris City Hall fake news somewhat, as we could not find a quote from Emmanuel Grégoire saying that no trees would be cut down for the…
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A new painting by Rémond for MontpellierThe Musée Fabre kept the immense historical landscape from the Salon of 1837 - along with its preparatory sketch acquired in 2016 - as well as a picturesque medium-format Italian landscape, but…
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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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The Mauritshuis buys a painting by Balthasar van der AstIn the 1620s and 1630s, a tulip epidemic swept through the northern part of the United Provinces, driving up prices beyond measure and leading to the "tulip crisis" in 1637. Among the most…
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Two new women artists for WashingtonLike Luisa Roldán, known as La Roldana, Lavinia Fontana, Gretchen Woodman Rogers and Gesina ter Borch, two new 17th-century Italian painters, Fede Galizia and Caterina Angela Pierozzi, have…
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Surroundings of Notre-Dame. Emmanuel Grégoire’s fake news (1): the lightEmmanuel Grégoire, and more generally the city hall of Paris, likes nothing better than to call his opponents names. He has no terms harsh enough to describe them, and that of "liar" comes up…
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A 45th painting by Ingres for MontaubanThe Talabardon & Gautier sales, so rich in museum acquisitions that we can hardly exhaust the subjects they give us the opportunity to deal with, have also enabled the Musée Ingres in…
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Musée d’Orsay buys a pastel by DevambezA jack-of-all-trades, both popular and academic, André Devambez has been brought out of oblivion thanks to the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Rennes and the Petit Palais in Paris, which have devoted an…
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Research Announcement : Jean-Pierre Norblin de la Gourdaine (1745-1830)Having undertaken the catalogue raisonné of the work of the painter Jean Pierre Norblin de la Gourdaine (1745-1830), I am looking for works that may be held in private collections. This painter…
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50 millions !One point of the cathedral’s surrounds redevelopment project has not been sufficiently emphasised in recent days. Its implausible cost. Let’s remember that the day after the Notre-Dame fire, Anne…
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Gardens of Notre-Dame: an analysis of Emmanuel Grégoire’s interview in the JDDThe Journal du Dimanche, which reveals itself week after week more and more as the official organ of Paris City Hall, published today on its website an interview with an interview with Emmanuel…
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Claudius Popelin back at the Musée des Arts décoratifsLargely unknown nowadays but very famous in his time, Claudius Popelin had all the makings of a Renaissance humanist scholar lost in the 19th century: both a theorist and a practitioner, a…
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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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Several works by Charles Cottet acquired by Brestt is the sea that leads, at sunset, this long cortege of black mantises, like a procession of widows, towards the distant bell tower where Low Mass sounds; It is for the sea, no doubt, that all…
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Launch of a partnership between La Tribune de l’Art and QobuzLa Tribune de l’Art is only interested in the plastic arts (paintings, drawings, sculptures, decorative arts...), architecture and heritage, over a precise period (from the Middle Ages to the…
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Surroundings of Notre-Dame: we have been too lenientWe try, contrary to what some may believe, to find positive points in the projects of the Municipality of Paris. Thus, for the development of the Notre-Dame area, we had initially written that…
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Two paintings by Jules Boilly preempted by MontpellierThey represent the Fountain of the Three Graces on the Place de la Comédie and the Fountain of Cybele on the Place Chabanau in Montpellier, two new paintings by Jules Boilly enter the collections…
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A painting by Millet bought by CherbourgAlthough Jean-François Millet was above all a painter of peasants, he tried his hand at the great genre of history during his formative years: having left Cherbourg for Paris, he entered the École…
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Jardin de l’Archevêché: when the Paris municipality makes fun of the CNPAOn 11 May, the CNPA (Commission Nationale du Patrimoine et de l’Architecture will examine the area around Notre-Dame, and in particular the future of the Jean XXIII and Île-de-France squares. For…
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A Portrait of a Capitoul by Jean Chalette for the Musée du Grand Siècleetween 1295 and 1787, the municipality of Toulouse, directed by the Capitouls (equivalent to the échevins and consuls) elected annually, enriched a large book of the city which included, among…
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Hôtel Mezzara : Take the money and runIn our first article on Hector Guimard’s Hotel Mezzara, written in April 2020, Bénédicte Bonnet Saint-Georges wrote: "It is to be believed that heritage is considered a burden and that all pretexts…
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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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Fundraising campaign from Langres for a sketch by DoyenVery active in the field of acquisitions as our series of recently published articles demonstrates, the Langres museums deserve to be encouraged. This is the first reason why the subscription…
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Two rare Victor Hugo panels preempted by the Maison de Victor HugoWe presented them at the end of our anthology of the Talabardon & Gautier sales that SVV Ader was preparing to organise on 21 and 23 March, the two unusual ink washes on fir boards by Victor…
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A petition to save the jardin de l’ArchevêchéThe disappearance of Paris, which we denounced in our book published last year, far from slowing down, is accelerating, as if the ever-stronger opposition of its inhabitants made the municipality…
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A painting by Molenaer acquired by the Frans Hals MuseumSeated nonchalantly by a fireplace, a young boy stares at the viewer in an unassuming manner, with a pipe in his left hand and a mug in his right, and seems to be inviting him to join him. This…