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Book Review
L’Amour en scène! François Boucher, du théâtre à l’opéra
09/2023 | 1446 | 165
Pages: 1029-31
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Reviewer:
Shahidi, Raha (Shahidi, Raha)
Subjects
artists:
Boucher, François
museums and institutions:
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tours, France
subjects:
French art / Theatre design / Opera
Reviewed Items
subjects:
L’Amour en scène! François Boucher, du théâtre à l’opéra Edited by Hélène Jagot, Jessica Degain and Guillaume Kazerouni. 240 pp. incl. numerous col. ills. (Éditions Snoeck, Ghent, and Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tours, 2022), €29. ISBN 978–2–903331–25–2. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
12. Apollo crowning the arts, by François Boucher. c.1763–66. Oil on canvas, 64.5 by 82 cm. (Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tours).
Attributed works:
13. Sylvia cures Phyllis of a bee sting, by François Boucher. 1755. Oil on canvas, 104.8 by 141.5 cm. (Banque nationale de France, Paris).
Attributed works:
14. Le Bourgeois gentilhomme after Molière, by Laurent Cars after François Boucher. 1734. Etching and burin, 19.4 by 13.9 cm. (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris).
Exhibition Review
Le Théâtre de Troie: Antoine Coypel, d’Homère à Virgile
04/2022 | 1429 | 164
Pages: 394-396
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Reviewer:
Duperron, Noémi (Duperron, Noémi)
Subjects
artists:
Coypel, Antoine
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tours, France
subjects:
Mythology / French painting
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Le Théâtre de Troie: Antoine Coypel, d’Homère à Virgile Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tours 22nd January–18th April | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
11. Jupiter and Juno on Mount Ida, by the workshop of Antoine Coypel. c.1700–20. Oil on canvas, 177.6 by 153.4 cm. (Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rennes; exh. Musée des Beaux- Arts de Tours).
Attributed works:
12. Assembly of the gods, engraved by Nicolas-Henri Tardieu after Antoine Coypel. 1717. Engraving and etching, 86.4 by 104 cm. (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris; exh. Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tours).
Attributed works:
13. Wrath of Achilles, by Antoine Coypel. c.1711. Oil on canvas, 117.5 by 210 cm. (Musée des Beaux-arts de Tours).
Article
Reassessing François-André Vincent
04/2015 | 1345 | 157
Pages: 265-268
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Author:
Wrigley, Richard (Wrigley, Richard)
Subjects
art literature:
Cuzin, Jean-Pierre / Mansfield, Elizabeth C.
artists:
Vincent, François-André
artists:
David, Jacques-Louis
dates:
1740-1749 / 1750-1799 / 1800-1819
museums and institutions:
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tours, France / Musée Fabre, Montpellier, France
subjects:
French painting / Reviews / Monographs / Exhibitions / Caricatures / History paintings / Catalogues raisonnés / Commissions
Illustrations
Attributed works:
41. (Left). Caricature of the painter Jombert with dangling arms, by François-André Vincent (Musée du Louvre, Paris)
Attributed works:
42. (Above). St Jerome in the desert, hearing the trumpet of the Last Judgment, by François-André Vincent (Musée Fabre, Montpellier)
Attributed works:
43. Arria and Paetus, by François-André Vincent (Christian and Isabelle Adrien Collection, Paris)
Exhibition Review
Tours 1500. Tours
08/2012 | 1313 | 154
Pages: 591-592
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Reviewer:
Yvard, Catherine (Yvard, Catherine)
Subjects
dates:
1500-1509 / 2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tours, France
places:
Tours / France
print:
Tours
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions / French painting / French sculpture / French architecture / Decorative arts / French
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Tours 1500, capitale des arts | institution: Musée des Beaux-Arts
Illustrations
Attributed works:
61. David and Bathsheba, from the Hours of Louis XII, by Jean Bourdichon. c.1498–1502. Parchment, sheet 24.3 by 17 cm. (J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; exh. Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tours).
Attributed works:
62. The Liget retable: Christ carrying the cross, Crucifixion and Entombment, by Jean Poyer and studio. 1485. Panel, 143 by 283 cm. (Logis royal du château, Loches; exh. Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tours).
Western art unattributed:
60. Virgin and Child. Touraine, c.1520. Alabaster with modern gilding, 51 by 16 by 11 cm. (Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tours).
Publication Received
Mantegna: La prédelle de San Zeno de Vérone, 1457–1459
06/2011 | 1299 | 153
Pages: 416
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Reviewer:
Martineau, Jane (Martineau, Jane; Martineau, Jane; M., J.T.)
Subjects
artists:
Mantegna, Andrea
buildings:
Basilica di San Zeno, Verona, Italy
dates:
2000-2009
museums and institutions:
Musée du Louvre, Paris, France / Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tours, France
print:
Mantegna, Andrea
subjects:
Scientific analysis / Technical analysis / Altarpieces / Italian painting / Restoration (process) / Triptychs / Exhibition catalogues / Predellas
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Mantegna: La prédelle de San Zeno de Vérone, 1457–1459 | author: De Marchi, Andrea , author: Eveno, Myriam , author: Giler, Annie , author: Lambert, Elsa , author: Puppo, Alessandro Del , author: Ravaud, Elisabeth , author: Thiébaut, Dominique
Book Review
Peintures françaises du XVIIIe siècle. Catalogue raisonné. Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tours. Château d’Azay-le-Ferron
05/2009 | 1274 | 151
Pages: 322
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Reviewer:
Vogtherr, Christoph Martin (Vogtherr, Christoph Martin)
Subjects
buildings:
Château d'Azay-le-Ferron, Azay-le-Ferron, France
dates:
1700-1799
museums and institutions:
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tours, France
places:
France / Tours
places:
Azay-Le-Ferron
print:
Collections, Public / Tours / Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tours, France
print:
French art
subjects:
French painting
subjects:
Collections, Public
subjects:
Catalogues raisonnés
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Peintures françaises du XVIIIe siècle. Catalogue raisonné. Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tours. Château d’Azay-le-Ferron | author: Join-Lambert, Sophie
Exhibition Review
Lorenzo Veneziano. Tours
01/2006 | 1234 | 148
Pages: 54-55
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Reviewer:
Strehlke, Carl Brandon (Strehlke, Carl Brandon; S., C. B.; Strehlke, C. B.; Strehlke, Carl Brandos)
Subjects
artists:
Veneziano, Lorenzo
dates:
2000-2009
museums and institutions:
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tours, France
places:
Tours / France
print:
Veneziano, Lorenzo
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Autour de Lorenzo Veneziano: Fragments de polyptyques vénitiens du XVIe siècle | institution: Musée des Beaux-Arts , institution: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tours
Illustrations
Attributed works:
74. Music-making angels, by Lorenzo Veneziano. 1368. Panel, 28.8 by 46.4 cm. (Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tours).
Attributed works:
75. Burial of St John the Baptist, by Lorenzo Veneziano. c.1360. Panel, 26.9 by 24.3 cm. (Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tours).
Attributed works:
76. Coronation of the Virgin, by Simone de' Crocifissi. 1370s. Panel, 89.5 by 49.7 cm. (Cathedral of Saint-Front, Périgueux; exh. Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tours).
Exhibition Review
Eighteenth-century French oil-sketches. Strasbourg and Tours
02/2004 | 1211 | 146
Pages: 128-129
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Reviewer:
Hedley, Jo (Hedley, Jo)
Subjects
dates:
1700-1799
dates:
2000-2009
museums and institutions:
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tours, France
museums and institutions:
Musée des Beaux Arts, Strasbourg, France
places:
France / Tours
places:
Strasbourg
print:
Oil sketches
subjects:
French painting / Oil sketches / Exhibitions / Reviews
Reviewed Items
subjects:
L'apothéose du geste: l'equisse peinte au siecle de Boucher et Fragonard. Strasbourg and Tours | institution: Musée des Beaux-Arts , institution: Palais de Rohan, Strasbourg
Illustrations
Attributed works:
51. The death of Meleager, by Francis Boucher. ?c.1727. 45.5 by 63.5 cm. (Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rennes; exh. Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tours)
Attributed works:
52. The union of the Procuration de Provence and the Consulat d'Aix in 1535, by Michel-François Dandre-Bardon. c.1731. 63 by 36 cm (Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tours)
Attributed works:
53. The death of Meleager, here attributed to the studio of François Boucher. ?c.1727. 50 by 66 cm. (Musée d'art Roger Quilliot, Clermont-Ferrand; esh. Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tours)
Exhibition Review
Delacroix. Paris, Philadelphia and Other Venues
11/1998 | 1148 | 140
Pages: 772-776
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Reviewer:
Athenassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. (Athenassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M.; Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M.)
Subjects
artists:
Delacroix, Eugène
dates:
1990-1999
museums and institutions:
Grand Palais, Paris, France
museums and institutions:
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, United States
museums and institutions:
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, Rouen, France
museums and institutions:
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France
museums and institutions:
Musée national Eugène Delacroix, Paris, France
museums and institutions:
Musée Bonnat-Helleu, Bayonne, France
museums and institutions:
Musée Condé, Chantilly, France
museums and institutions:
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tours, France
places:
France / Paris / Philadelphia / United States
places:
Rouen
places:
Chantilly / Tours / Bayonne
subjects:
Exhibitions / Reviews
Illustrations
Attributed works:
64. A Vase of Flowers on a Console, by Eugène Delacroix. 1849-50. 135 by 102 cm. (Musée Ingres, Montauban; Exh. Philadelphia Museum of Art).
Attributed works:
65. Lion Hunt (Fragment), by Eugène Delacroix. 1855. 260 by 359 cm. (Musée des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux; Exh. Philadelphia Museum of Art).
Attributed works:
66. The Entombment, by Eugène Delacroix. 1858-59. 56.3 by 46.3 cm. (National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo; Exh. Philadelphia Museum of Art).
Attributed works:
67. Turkish Women Bathing, by Eugène Delacroix. 1854. 92 by 78 cm. (Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT; Exh. Philadelphia Museum of Art).
Attributed works:
68. The Fanatics of Tangier, by Eugène Delacroix. 1857. 47 by 56 cm. (Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Exh. Philadelphia Museum of Art).
Attributed works:
69. The Fanatics of Tangier, by Eugène Delacroix. 1838. 97.8 by 131.3 cm. (Minneapolis Institute of Arts).
Attributed works:
70. Bouquet of Flowers, by Eugène Delacroix. 1849. Water-Colour, Gouache, and Pastel Highlights over Graphite Sketch on Grey Paper, 65 by 65.4 cm. (Louvre, Paris; Exh. Philadelphia Museum of Art).
Article
An Unknown Rembrandt Painting of the Leiden Period
05/1954 | 614 | 96
Pages: 134-135
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Author:
Benesch, Otto (Benesch, Otto)
Subjects
artists:
Rembrandt van Rijn
dates:
1600-1649
museums and institutions:
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tours, France
places:
Netherlands / Leiden
subjects:
Dutch painting / Attributions
subjects:
Signatures
subjects:
Early works / Formal analysis
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Flight into Egypt, by Rembrandt. Signed in Monogram. Panel, 37 by 36 cm. (Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tours.)
Attributed works:
Fig. A. Signature on Tours Flight into Egypt.