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Annonce de chercheur : De Chinard à David d’Angers, les visages de la Révolution françaiseInscrite en Master à l’université de Lille, je travaille sous la direction de Frédéric Chappey sur le sujet suivant : "De Chinard à David d’Angers, les visages de la Révolution française : iconographie,…
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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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Fantastic animalsCould we have been lied to? The mummified dragon’s head on display in a curiosity cabinet looks an awful lot like a crocodile’s (ill. 1). It may come from the Musée du Doudou, but it’s sure to fool…
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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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Amedeo Modigliani. A painter and his dealerThere’s nothing like a famous name to get the season off to a flying start: following on from a fine display presented last year, the exhibition has everything it takes to seduce visitors, despite…
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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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Three inalienable paintings sold by the French StateOn 19 September this year, the Domaines auctioned three paintings belonging to a prefecture. Due to lack of time, we were unable to go into more detail about the origin of the works. It was the…
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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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Louis Janmot. The Poem of the SoulLouis Janmot was born on 21 May 1814. According to the rules laid down by the Ministry of Culture, he therefore belongs to the Musée du Louvre. Fortunately, the Musée d’Orsay, to which all artists…
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Research announcement: Émile Peynot (1850-1932)As part of my first year of a master’s degree in art history at the University of Burgundy, I am researching the French sculptor Émile Peynot (1850-1932) and will be producing a draft catalogue of…
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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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16th-century Italian sculpture acquired by the PradoA marble by Giovanni Bandini has finally been purchased by the Prado Museum, having been declared a "property of cultural interest" last April by the Comunidad de Madrid. This Venus accompanied…
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The Olympics against heritage and museumsLa Tribune de l’Art, which practices journalism committed to heritage, has never hidden its fierce opposition to the organisation of the Olympic Games in Paris. It was a losing battle, as the…
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Sèvres. Revue de la Société des Amis du musée national de la Céramique - Sommaire du n°32 - 2023La revue Sèvres est la revue annuelle de la Société des Amis du musée national de la Céramique. Elle a pris le relais des Cahiers de la Céramique, du verre et des arts du feu publiés par l’association…
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Two paintings by Rachel Ruysch for Dublin and BostonDominated by an elegant tulip, but also embellished with roses and forget-me-nots, the composition is seductive from the first glance, even if we are also drawn in by the almost incongruous…
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Two new Swedish paintings for OrsayAs we recently pointed out when Carl Forsberg’s superb watercolour entered the Musée d’Orsay’s collections, Scandinavian art is one of the main focuses of the Musée d’Orsay’s current acquisitions…
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The Conservatoire d’art dramatique soon to be "classé" as a historic monumentIt’s a fight we’ve been waging for several years now, and to which we’ve devoted many articles. Thanks to the Minister for Culture, Rima Abdul-Malak, who is at last keeping a promise made by…
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The Maharajah of Indore returns to Christie’sThirty-two lots, it’s not much, of course, but it’s enough to evoke one of design lovers’ favourite stories: that of the Maharajah of Indore and his palace at Manik Bagh. Four years after the rich…
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The Kimbell buys a masterpiece by GainsboroughA century or so ago, Thomas Gainsborough was among the most sought after Old Masters painters by American collectors. He became a household name after his Blue Boy was sold in 1921 by the Second…
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French Ministry of Culture budget conference: good news and bad newsFrench Culture Minister Rima Abdul Malak presented the Ministry of Culture’s budget on Wednesday. As we have often written, a budget can only be fully judged once it has actually been spent. In…
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Clouets for the Louvre and ChantillyThe portraits of two brothers by François Clouet recently joined the public collections, acquired by the Musée du Louvre and the Musée Condé in Chantilly on the same day in June: one represents the…
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Le Pays Lorrain - 120e année, vol 104 - Juin 2023Sommaire William Marc, Le cerveau d’une bibliothèque Richard Dagorne, Accompagner la Société d’histoire de la Lorraine et du Musée lorrain dans le renouveau de sa bibliothèque Francine Roze,…
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A first Hammershøi for ChicagoThe Art Institute of Chicago continues to make spectacular acquisitions, adding Danish artist Vilhelm Hammershøi to its collection for €8,397,322. Acquired from Sotheby’s New York on 16 May after…
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An exhibition of wallpapers at the Galerie LéageWallpaper (in French "papier peint") is not painted. Of course, it was in its early days, when it was created by the Chinese and adorned the walls of the sumptuous interiors described by Marco…
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A sculpture by Charlotte Besnard for the Philadelphia Museum of ArtA true glory of French painting during the Belle Époque, Albert Besnard had to wait until 2016 to be truly rescued from the oblivion to which he had unfortunately ended up falling, thanks to a…
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Marseille buys a portrait by Dominique PapetyBorn in Marseilles, Dominique Papety suffered a tragic fate: he died at the age of just 34 from cholera, which he contracted during a trip to Greece. His short career was nonetheless fruitful,…
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A relief of Chinard finally reaches Clermont-FerrandA work that is essential to understanding the work of one of the greatest sculptors of the revolutionary and Napoleonic periods has finally been delivered to its commissioner, more than two…
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Research announcement : Jean Dupas (1882-1964)The Musée des Beaux-arts de Bordeaux (MusBA) is planning an exhibition on Jean Dupas (Bordeaux, 1882 - Paris, 1964) for 2026. With this in mind, we are seeking to locate a corpus of the artist’s…
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Enamels from the Middle Ages at the Brimo de Laroussilhe galleryPyxides, boxes containing Oil of Saints, reliquary shrines, bookbinding plaques and candlesticks - the Parisian gallery Brimo de Laroussilhe is bringing together an anthology of enamels from the…
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A Boudin preempted by the MuséoSeineLocated in Caudebec-en-Caux (now the delegated commune of Rives-en-Seine) on the right bank of the Seine, between Le Havre and Rouen, the MuséoSeine was inaugurated in 2016. Subtitled the Museum…
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Disappearance of Paris: an Art Deco building and several treesThe disappearance of Paris under Mayor Anne Hidalgo, which we denounced in a book published last year by Belles Lettres, is no fiction, unfortunately, and this disappearance is even accelerating.…
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A new 17th-century drawing acquired by StockholmA new old master drawing has joined the graphic arts collection of the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm. Still anonymous, this red chalk portrait of the great Italian collector and patron Cassiano dal…
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Galerie Chevalier puts antique tapestries on saleTo obtain the keys to paradise, do we have to give up the laurels of glory? Not necessarily. Salvation and fame are both available at the Galerie Chevalier. Among the sumptuous tapestries on the…
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Three paintings sold by a French prefecture...The sale, which is online only, closes tomorrow at 11am. So it’s very late to be talking about it, but we didn’t find out about it until yesterday, Sunday, and we didn’t get a full reply (obviously…
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A painting by Raden Saleh returns to the LouvreWe have just learned from France Info that a painting long-term loaned by the Louvre to Saint-Amand-Montrond is to be restored and returned to Paris for good. It is a rare canvas - the only one…
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Protection du patrimoine : de bonnes mesures qui ne résolvent pas toutNous critiquons suffisamment souvent la politique patrimoniale du chef de l’État pour convenir que, pour une fois, les mesures qu’il a annoncées hier en faveur du patrimoine religieux vont dans le…
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The Palais de la Porte Dorée looks after its Art Deco heritageHow can we not talk about resurrection? A complete décor has been reborn for visitors to this iconic French Art Deco monument : the beautiful Salon des Laques has been restored to its original…
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Fabrizio Moretti opens a gallery in ParisThere could be no better symbol of the dynamism of the Paris art market than the arrival of a new gallery devoted to old painters. The one that has just opened its doors on Place du Louvre, next…
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A Manet and a Cassatt for AtlantaShe appears in several works by Édouard Manet: Madame Jules Guillemet, born Jeanne Julie Charlotte Besnier de la Pontonnerie, epitomised the Parisian woman of the Belle Epoque. She and her husband…
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The Boejat legacy in Nantes (1): 17th-century landscapes and still lifesAs we wrote earlier, the Boejat bequest to the Musée d’Arts d’Nantes comprises three main groups. We will begin with two news items about 17th-century and 18th-century French painting, starting with…
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Four new American Impressionist paintings for GivernyIn addition to the three Eugène Boudin paintings recently added to the Musée des Impressionnismes collection, four new paintings by American Impressionists Mary Colman Wheeler and Theodore Earl…
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The Burlington Magazine - n° 1445 vol CLXV - August 2023Manet’s model: in search of Victorine Meurent Editorial Don’t believe your eyes Articles James Fairhead, Victorine Meurent: new evidence from America and Paris Mary Vaccaro, Naming…
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Revue de l’Art n°220/2023-2Éditorial Barthélémy Jobert, Voir Naples… Notes et documents Oriane Lavit, De la plume au pinceau : œuvres inédites d’Horace Le Blanc (vers 1575-1637) Étienne Faisant, L’apprentissage…
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A drawing by Anthelme-François Lagrenée for ChicagoVery impressive, this large drawing by Anthelme-François Lagrenée is well known to readers of La Tribune de l’Art where we have already reproduced it twice: at the time of its sale at the Hôtel…
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