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  • The Musée de la Vie romantique buys a bronze by Mélingue

    "Camped and draped as he was, he seemed modeled on a statue" Thus Dumas père described the actor Étienne Mélingue, whose youth before success he recounted in a story entitled Une vie d’artiste,…

  • The National Gallery of Washington buys a nautilus

    Explorers and merchants brought back exotic objects from their travels to grace the cabinets of curiosities in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; the nautilus shell, in particular, was…

  • Cluny buys the Christ by Giovanni Pisano

    The dismaying exhibition of Dresden masterpieces at the Palais du Luxembourg called into question the very mission of museums by suggesting that they should sort out the art objects: "Can we…

  • The Prado acquires a painting by Zurbarán

    A new painting by Francisco de Zurbarán can now be seen at the Prado. Held by a Canarian collector, it had not been allowed to leave Spanish territory. The museum was able to acquire it and thus…

  • A Bourdelle for the Montauban museum

    It is not known who Marcelle Coquard was, portrayed by Antoine Bourdelle at the age of 15. Her plaster bust was purchased from the Galerie La Nouvelle Athènes by the Musée Ingres in Montauban, the…

  • Un tableau de Poelenburgh pour le Musée de Picardie

    Parce qu’il aimait peupler ses œuvres de nymphes et autres femmes dénudées, Cornelis van Poelenburgh prit le surnom de «Satyre» lorsqu’il rejoignit le groupe des Bentvueghels à Rome. En effet, après…

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  • Deux Montpetit pour Mâcon

    La peinture éludorique, du grec elaïon (huile) et hudor (eau) fut inventée par Arnauld Vincent de Montpetit en 1759. Il voulait pour réaliser des miniatures, avoir les avantages sans les…

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