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May 2013: Art in France
Editorial
Article (6)
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Gavin Hamilton’s previously unpublished Venus presenting Helen to Paris (c.1777–80) has been acquired by the Musée du Louvre, Paris.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Renoir’s previously undocumented visit to London is here dated and described using unpublished letters written by Jacques-Emile Blanche to his parents during his own visit to the city.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
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
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
Exhibition Review (17)
Obsessions: R.B. Kitaj, 1932–2007. Berlin; London and Chichester; Hamburg
Reviewed by Timothy Hyman