The Art Tribune

The Paintings Stolen from the Musée Fesch Now Recovered

Didier Rykner — 2012-05-07T08:55:01Z

The four paintings which had been stolen from the Musée Fesch in Ajaccio, Corsica last February 2011 were recovered on the evening of 4th May 2012 in a city parking lot, after the investigating magistrate was notified that the works had been left there (the official version states that an anonymous phone call was received)

- News Items / Thefts, Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665), Ajaccio, Musée Fesch

Gustave Moreau, Helen of Troy : Majestic Beauty

Jean-David Jumeau-Lafond — 2012-04-26T14:39:00Z

Over the past few years, the Musée Gustave Moreau has organized exhibitions highlighting a particular aspect of the master's art, a theme, a previously unexplored facet, a part of the immense oeuvre residing in this private residence on the rue de La Rochefoucauld. We know that the museum, which Moreau wished to be in his "studio-home", obviously does not have a temporary exhibition space

- Exhibitions / a_la_une, Gustave Moreau (1826-1898), Paris, Musée Gustave Moreau, René Lalique (1860-1945)

The Metropolitan Acquires a Carlo Francesco Nuvolone and a Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg

Bénédicte Bonnet Saint-Georges — 2012-04-25T11:02:00Z

The Metropolitan Museum recently acquired two 17th and 19th century paintings, their only point in common being that they are both from Italy. The first is a Woman Martyr by the Lombard painter, Carlo Francesco Nuvolone , bequeathed to the museum. It is similar to other figures painted by the artist, notably a queen posing for a painter

- News Items / Acquisitions, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Carlo Francesco Nuvolone (1609-1662), Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (1782-1853)

Acquisition of a Bartolomé Pérez de la Dehesa Painting by the Cleveland Museum

Bénédicte Bonnet Saint-Georges — 2012-04-25T10:15:00Z

The Cleveland museum has recently acquired a Virgin with Child painted on copper by Bartolomé Pérez de la Dehesa, disciple then son-in-law of Juan Arellano, from the Galerie Terrades in Paris. The artist is known for his flowers rather than his religious scenes, although his floral garlands sometimes provide a frame for the saints he depicted.

- News Items / Acquisitions, Bartolomé Pérez de la Dehesa (c. 1634 – 1698), Juan Minguet (1737-1804 ?), Cleveland, Museum of Art

Maurice Denis, Eternal Spring

Bénédicte Bonnet Saint-Georges — 2012-04-24T13:17:00Z

Maurice Denis does not in any way correspond to the image of the doomed artist : not only was he Christian but he is also fashionably popular today (not always hand in hand ). After the retrospective staged by Orsay in 2007, a series of exhibitions and thematic publications have recently explored the painter's ties with Brittany

- Exhibitions / a_la_une, Giverny, Musée des Impressionnismes, anciennement Art Américain, Maurice Denis (1870-1943)

Electoral Reserve Period : DRAC Officials Silenced by a Legally Unfounded Order

Didier Rykner — 2012-04-23T13:18:00Z

With several investigations related to cultural heritage and museums currently underway, we find that all of the questions we have addressed to Directeurs Regionaux des Affaires Culturelles or their deputies are mysteriously answered in the same way with the words : "reserve period", preventing them from providing any information

- News Items / Heritage and museum policy in France

Cima da Conegliano. Master of the Venitian Renaissance

Didier Rykner — 2012-04-20T10:02:00Z

Lorenzo Lotto, Le siècle de Titien, Splendeur de Venise or Titien, Tintoret, Véronese... Of all the Italian schools, the Venetian has always been the favorite of French museums for the major retrospectives staged over the recent past. At the very same Luxembourg, Veronese's portraits had been featured in a rather disappointing exhibition

- Exhibitions / a_la_une, Paris, Musée du Luxembourg, Cima da Conegliano (1459/60-1517/18)

The Incredible Intellectual Void of the Louvre-Lens

Didier Rykner — 2012-04-19T13:16:00Z

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 alone reflects its superficiality) are in no way connected except for the fact they are mainly masterpieces

- Editorial / a_la_une, Paris, Musée du Louvre, Aimless Exhibitions, Louvre-Lens, Museum relocations

A Painting by Jakob Philipp Hackert Acquired by Dresden

Didier Rykner — 2012-04-18T09:57:00Z

After training in Berlin, then spending time in Sweden and France where he frequented Jean-Georges Wille's studio, the landscapist Jakob Philipp Hackert traveled to Italy in 1768 where he was painter to the King of Naples, Ferdinand IV from 1786 to 1799 before spending his last years finally in Tuscany. The Dresden museums have just purchased a landscape by this artist representing The Sibyl's Temple in Tivoli

- News Items / Acquisitions, Dresde, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Jacob Philipp Hackert (1737-1807)

The Golden Age of Danish Painting at the Galerie Jean-François Heim

Bénédicte Bonnet Saint-Georges — 2012-04-18T09:29:00Z

The Galerie Jean-François Heim is presenting an exhibition of painters from the Danish Golden Age, often featured over the last few years there and which runs until 11 May. This offering is in perfect symmetry with the exhibition currently on show at the Dutch Institute in Paris where the visit ends with a series of 19th century paintings of the same school

- News Items / Paris, Fondation Custodia, Acquisitions, Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (1782-1853), Johan Thomas Lundbye (1818-1848), Johann Carl Neumann (1833-1891), Vilhelm Kyhn (1819-1903)