The Three Graces by Lucas Cranach Join the Collections of the Louvre Museum

PARIS.- A month after the launch of the campaign to acquire Lucas Cranach’s Three Graces, the Louvre has raised 1 million euros from over 5000 donors. This enabled Lucas Cranach’s Three Graces to enter into the Louvre’s collections. The Louvre would like to thank all those who have taken part in this extraordinary successful campaign! On November 13, the Louvre museum launched a fundraising campaign to acquire The Three Graces by Lucas Cranach. This small oil on wood painting shows [...]

U.S. Government Returns Degas Painting Stolen 37 Years Ago to French Government

NEW YORK, NY (AP).- An Edgar Degas painting that was stolen 37 years ago and recently rediscovered before an auction in New York will be returned to the French government, U.S. officials said Thursday. U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch and James T. Hayes Jr., head of the New York office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, announced that a Manhattan seller had agreed to turn over the painting, “Laundry Woman with Toothache,” without a forfeiture proceeding. Sotheby’s had given the small oil [...]

Abu Dhabi Launches Tender Competition for Louvre Museum

ABU DHABI.- Abu Dhabi’s Tourism Development & Investment Company (TDIC) said on Tuesday it has launched the main tender competition for building a branch of the Louvre museum on its flagship development Saadiyat Island. “The main contract works, the dome, mechanical, electrical, is tendered today,” Felix Reinberg, director of projects delivery at TDIC’s museum division, told reporters on the sidelines of a tour of the island. Reinberg said the tendering process would close in June. Located off the coast of [...]

Louvre Museum Reports it had 8.5 Million Visitors in 2009

PARIS.- The Louvre Museum says it had 8.5 million visitors last year, the same number it had in record-breaking 2008. Temporary exhibits, including a show about the ancient Egyptians and another on Venetian Renaissance masters Titian, Tintoretto and Veronese, helped attract art lovers. On top of the 8.5 million people who toured the Paris museum, another 3.5 million visited traveling shows of Louvre works in France and abroad On top of the 8.5 million people who toured the Paris museum, [...]