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The art of the archive

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Antoine Pesne’s ‘Samson and Delilah’: the genesis of a morceau de reception for the Academy in Paris

By Christoph Martin Vogtherr

The genesis of Antoine Pesne’s Samson and Delilah (c.1719) at the Gemaldegälerie, Berlin.

Jean-Honoré Fragonard’s lost ‘Little pilgrim’

By Katie Hanson

An oval painting of the Little pilgrim (c.1754) by Jean-Honoré Fragonard, long considered lost, has been acquired by the Indianapolis Museum of Art.

Gavin Hamilton’s ‘Venus presenting Helen to Paris’: a new painting for the Louvre

By Guillaume Faroult

Gavin Hamilton’s previously unpublished Venus presenting Helen to Paris (c.1777–80) has been acquired by the Musée du Louvre, Paris.

Two rediscovered paintings by Hubert Robert and their French revolutionary context

By Frédérique Baumgartner

A discussion of the recently discovered pendants The Day of the Wheelbarrows and The Federation Festival (both 1790) by Hubert Robert.

A drawing for ‘Hodna’: an early painting by Eugène Fromentin

By Barbara Wright

A recently discovered drawing by Eugène Fromentin of a North African scene.

Renoir’s visit to London

By Augustin de Butler

Renoir’s previously undocumented visit to London is here dated and described using unpublished letters written by Jacques-Emile Blanche to his parents during his own visit to the city.

Book Review (10)

Orsanmichele and the History and Preservation of the Civic Monument

Reviewed by Peta Motture

Glasgow Museums: The Italian Paintings

Reviewed by David Scrase

Pour l’amour de l’art. Artistes et amateurs français à Rome au XVIIIe siècle

Reviewed by Philippe Bordes

Fragonard and the Fantasy Figure: Painting the Imagination

Reviewed by Colin B. Bailey

Fragonard’s Progress of Love at the Frick Collection

Reviewed by Marie-Anne Dupuy-Vachey

Ingres and the Studio: Women, Painting, History

Reviewed by Patricia Smyth

Vom Klassizismus zum Kubismus. Bestandskatalog der französischen Malerei in der Kunsthalle Bremen

Reviewed by Felix Krämer

Art of the Actual: Naturalism and Style in Early Third Republic France, 1880–1900

Reviewed by Nancy Ireson

Renoir in The Barnes Foundation

Reviewed by Augustin de Butler

Edouard Manet

Reviewed by Richard Shone

Exhibition Review (17)

Piranesi and Paestum. London, Berlin and New York

Reviewed by Xavier F. Salomon

George Bellows. Washington, New York and London

Reviewed by Randall C. Griffin

Becoming Picasso. London

Reviewed by Sarah Whitfield

London exhibitions (Robert Rauschenberg). London

Reviewed by James Cahill

London exhibitions (Rosemarie Trockel). London

Reviewed by James Cahill

London exhibitions (Keith Tyson). London

Reviewed by James Cahill

London exhibitions (Julian Opie). London

Reviewed by James Cahill

London exhibitions (Mat Collishaw). London

Reviewed by James Cahill

Glam: The performance of style

Reviewed by James Boaden

Obsessions: R.B. Kitaj, 1932–2007. Berlin; London and Chichester; Hamburg

Reviewed by Timothy Hyman

Karl Friedrich Schinkel. Berlin and Munich

Reviewed by Barry Bergdoll

Pietro Bembo. Padua

Reviewed by Xanthe Brooke

Dalí. Paris and Madrid

Reviewed by Dawn Ades

The Civil War and American art. Washington and New York

Reviewed by Tim Barringer

Dieter Roth (Museum of Modern Art). New York

Reviewed by John-Paul Stonard

Dieter Roth (Hauser & Wirth). New York

Reviewed by John-Paul Stonard

May Calendar 2013

Obituary (1)

Roseline Bacou (1923–2013)

By Catherine Monbeig-Goguel

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