Bénédicte Bonnet Saint-Georges
Articles
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Fontainebleau restores the cartoons of Oudry’s Royal Hunts"You will never be anything but a painter of dogs", Nicolas de Largillière is said to have laughingly predicted to Jean-Baptiste Oudry, admiring his pupil’s gift for rendering the animal "with such…
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A new Thomas Couture for Senlis"If you take models, [...] surprise them; let them not know that you are looking at them. A few quickly drawn lines, your observations and a few notes taken on the fire of your impressions will…
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VermeerHurry to the website of the Rijksmuseum, click frantically to obtain the famous sesame. New visiting slots are offered: it is still possible to see Vermeer on certain evenings at 9:30 pm. By the…
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Bordeaux buys a painting by GervexHenri Gervex’s most famous painting entitled Rolla caused such a scandal at the 1873 Salon that it was excluded. It was included in the somewhat too light exhibition that Orsay devoted to…
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Interview with Patrice Benadon, collectorYou did not grow up in an artistic environment and practiced dentistry. How did you develop this passion for art that has led you to build a collection that is both rich and varied, in which 15th…
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Restoration of the chapels of Saint-Joseph of Saint-Sulpice and Saint-EustacheLa restauration des églises parisiennes se poursuit, menée par la Conservation des œuvres d’art religieuses et civiles (COARC) et par la Direction des affaires culturelles de la Ville de Paris (DAC).…
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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,…
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The National Gallery of Washington buys a nautilusExplorers 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…
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Cluny buys the Christ by Giovanni PisanoThe 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…
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A landscape by Duncanson acquired by the New Britain Museum of American ArtA painter of the American West, considered one of the best landscapists of his time, Robert Seldon Duncanson was a self-taught artist born to an American father and a freed African-American…