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National Gallery of Art acquires a painting by Elizabeth Okie PaxtonRather than depicting a female nude languidly reclining on a bed, Elizabeth Okie Paxton chose not to show it, but to evoke its presence in a cleverly organised bedroom. So she paints a genre…
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The new directors of the museums of Lille and StrasbourgNew curators have arrived at the helm of the museums of Lille and Strasbourg in recent months. The Palais des Beaux-Arts and the Musée de l’Hospice Comtesse in Lille have been headed by Juliette…
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Fundraising for the Musée des Impressionnismes de GivernyThe first Impressionist exhibition opened in Paris in 1874. Several museums are celebrating this 150th anniversary, including the one in Giverny, which has the audacity to tackle a relatively…
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A tapestry by Gerhard Munthe acquired by OrsayPurchased from the Oscar Graf gallery, a large tapestry by the Norwegian Gerhard Munthe joins the collections of the Musée d’Orsay, which is continuing its active policy of acquiring Scandinavian…
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Hélène Duret to succeed Bruno GaudichonOne of France’s most endearing and unique museums is about to undergo a change of leadership with the announced departure of Bruno Gaudichon for a well-deserved retirement: as revealed by La Voix…
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A Manfredi for the GettyIt’s a happy company, at least at first sight. A group of men are drinking wine around an improvised table that looks like an ancient Roman altar, while listening to one of them play the lute.…
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Marie and Félix Bracquemond on sale at ArtcurialFirst and foremost, this is an exhibition not to be missed under any circumstances, even if it is unfortunately only open this Friday, Saturday and then Monday before the sale of the entire…
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Three recent Quimper acquisitions« Elles n’ont pas, en ce moment, de rivales à l’Exposition Universelle. Aucun spectacle n’est plus inattendu ni plus curieux, et nos yeux d’Occidentaux blasés sont hypnotisés par ce troublant…
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A Portuguese Renaissance painting for the LouvreA year ago, the Louvre organised a small but magnificent exhibition devoted to the Portuguese Renaissance. We explained that many works had been lost in the Lisbon earthquake of 1755, and that…
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Two drawings by Honthorst acquired by the British MuseumAll lovers of old master drawings will remember the exceptional set of twenty-seven sheets by Gerrit van Honthorst that were the subject of an exhibition at Nicolas Schwed almost nine years ago,…
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The Cleveland Museum buys a painting by ZoffanyIt’s a happy coincidence: when the Cleveland Museum’s English galleries were refurbished in 2018, the curators’ intention was to give visitors the feeling of entering an 18th-century flat. To…
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A Dandré-Bardon for MontpellierIt was a highly attractive image that made a long-awaited reappearance at Delon/Hoebanx & Associés at Hôtel Drouot on Thursday 12 October: this painting by Michel-François Dandré-Bardon,…
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A new Domenico Piola for the Palazzo SpinolaA new painting by Domenico Piola has been added to the collections of the Palazzo Spinola in Genoa, acquired by the Italian Ministry of Culture from the Galerie Canesso in Paris. Kept in private…
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Two exhibitions in Parisian galleriesThe Parisian art market is so rich that even outside the now ritualised events - the Salon du Dessin in April and Fine Arts Paris, now combined with the Biennale in November - many galleries…
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Patrimonial, a new magazineIn this age of the Internet - the importance of which we are not unaware! - it’s always pleasing to see the birth of a new ’paper’ magazine, and even more so when it’s in the field of heritage. It is…
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Two paintings by Angelica Kauffmann for the Detroit Institute of ArtThis acquisition had escaped us: in 2022 the Detroit Institute of Art chose to purchase, from a private collector, a double family portrait painted by Angelica Kauffamnn, of which it had no work…
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The statue of La Bourdonnais on Réunion Island soon to be unboltedOn 6 May we reported on the threats to unbolt the bronze statue of La Bourdonnais, sculpted by Louis Rochet and listed as a historic monument. These threats are becoming increasingly pressing,…
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Douai gets a portrait by BrenetOn 25 September this year, art historian Marie Fournier gave a talk presenting her very recent monograph on Nicolas-Guy Brenet, and took the opportunity to unveil three paintings that had…
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The Boejat legacy in Nantes (2): old master drawingsThe Boejat bequest to Nantes includes paintings and drawings. After writing about French paintings of the 17th and 18th centuries, we are publishing here the twelve old master drawings that are…
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The Louvre preempts three tapestriesThere is the charming detail of the squirting water in the centre of the composition: Diana splashes Actaeon to repel him. This reaction is well and truly specified by Ovid. The author of the…
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Two new 18th-century tapestries preempted by the Mobilier nationalWe announced a little less than a month ago that the Galerie Chevalier was exhibiting a series of sumptuous tapestries dating from the 17th to 18th centuries, which it was preparing to sell under…
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A first Artemisia Gentileschi for BostonArtemisia Gentileschi still does not feature in the Louvre or even in French public collections, major foreign museums are continuing to purchase her works from the French art market. After the…
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Langres acquires a painting by VolaireAs it celebrates its tenth anniversary, the Maison des Lumières Denis Diderot is stepping up its acquisitions, as demonstrated by our series of articles recently published on the subject. Acquired…
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An 18th-century clock acquired by the Musée Paul-DupuyUsually embodied by a moderately friendly bearded old man, beating the air with his wings and scythe, Time is evoked here by four much more cheerful young women; two of them are…
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A bust of "Baron" Schmiedel enters the Metropolitan MuseumThis is an effigy that was an ideal loss leader on the Kugel gallery stand at the Maastricht Tefaf and was even chosen to illustrate its latest greetings card. This Meissen hard-paste porcelain…
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Vaux-le-Vicomte launches a subscription to buy a tapestryHow to retain Spring? The Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte is launching a crowfunding, in collaboration with the Sauvegarde de l’art français, to purchase a tapestry from the Gardener Children hanging.…
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A foundation stone and a new acquisition for the Musée du Grand SiècleThe Musée du Grand Siècle project, which we have been following since its inception, has just reached a new milestone: the laying of the foundation stone. Although this is a symbolic event (the…
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