Qatar Reveals It’s the Owner of Courbet’s Famous Self-Portrait
Qatar revealed this week that it’s the owner of Gustave Courbet‘s famed self-portrait Le Désespéré (The Desperate Man),…
Musée d’Orsay Puts Manet on (Mock) Trial for Obscenity
At the 1863 Salon des Refusés—a special exhibition for works rejected by Paris’s official Salon—Édouard Manet’s Déjeuner sur l’herbe provoked intense…
Musée d’Orsay President Dies of Heart Failure at 58
Sylvain Amic, an art historian who took the helm of Paris’s Musée d’Orsay last year, died on Sunday…