Sotheby's in Paris gives advance notice of what promises to be one of the sales of the year...On 16th May, the designer and collector Jacques Garcia intends to offer for auction 75 works of art, many of which once belonged to royalty and nobility...
A round-up from 18th-century and Revolutionary France
Sotheby's in Paris gives advance notice of what promises to be one of the sales of the year...On 16th May, the designer and collector Jacques Garcia intends to offer for auction 75 works of art, many of which once belonged to royalty and nobility...
The Tom Paine hotel in Thetford unveils ambitious plans for a new £70,000 museum dedicated to the town's most famous son.
Vaincre ou Mourir!, the film from Puy de Fou on the life of Charette, is now on general release in France. Predictably it has been caned for its Right-wing bias. Equally predictably, "most cinema critics agree that the movie is … bad." Shame!
Among the most noteworthy lots items from the collection of Doctor André Bernheim, auctioned by Giquello et associés on 21st January, was this remarkable drawing of Robespierre, signed by the pupil of David, Claude Gautherot (Paris, 1769-1825).
This Sunday the 230th anniversary of the execution of Louis XVI was commemorated by Royalists in France. The Duke of Anjou, "Louis XX", put in a personal appearance for Mass at the Chapelle Expiatoire.
The Gal Times [published in Abkhazia] marks the anniversary of the execution of Louis XVI with an article on surviving statues of the King. Today, only two statues remain in public spaces: in Nantes and in Loroux-Bottereau.
The exhibition Promenades on Paper: Eighteenth-Century French Drawings from the Bibliothèque nationale de France runs at the Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts until 12th March.
The Collector publishes an article, by Batuhan Asku, on perceptions of the French Revolution in the Islamic World.
Neil Jeffares has written an essay for Sotheby's, on collecting 18th Century pastels.