Georges de La Tour, once a victim of the academy’s collective amnesia, can be seen in a new light in Paris

The Musée Jacquemart-André in Paris opens the first major exhibition dedicated to 17th-century French painter Georges de La Tour in nearly 30 years, featuring about 20 original works and a dozen studio pieces. The show, part of a series on Caravaggio's influence across Europe, highlights new scholarship on La Tour's working practice and the role of his atelier. La Tour was rediscovered in 1915 by German art historian Hermann Voss, who corrected a long-standing misattribution of his signed canvases to other artists, sparking a chain of rediscoveries that revived interest in an artist whose known oeuvre now numbers only 48 works.

Un album démembré de Gerard van Honthorst (1592-1656) : dessins inédits et reconstitution d'un corpus

An article in La Tribune de l'Art presents a significant expansion of the known corpus of drawings by Dutch Golden Age painter Gerard van Honthorst (1592-1656). The author, who previously identified and exhibited twenty-seven drawings in 2014, now adds thirty-two more sheets—twenty-two of which are previously unpublished. This collection represents a first attempt to reconstruct a dismembered album of Honthorst's drawings. The research is based on direct observation, digital microscopy, and various lighting techniques, and is intended as a preliminary step toward a forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist's drawings to be published by R.S.V.P. Editions in Brussels.

A Dismembered Album by Gerard van Honthorst (1592-1656): Unpublished Drawings and Reconstruction of a Corpus

Un album démembré de Gerard van Honthorst (1592-1656) : dessins inédits et reconstitution d'un corpus

An article in La Tribune de l'Art presents a significant expansion of the known corpus of drawings by Dutch Golden Age painter Gerard van Honthorst (1592-1656). Following the 2014 exhibition of twenty-seven drawings identified by the author, this study adds thirty-two more sheets—twenty-two of which are previously unpublished—as a preliminary step toward reconstructing a dismembered album. The research, conducted with direct observation and advanced imaging techniques (digital microscopy, ultraviolet, raking light), aims to restore the album's original order and shed light on the role of drawing in Honthorst's workshop and creative process.