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8 stories across 19th Century, Paris, London, and Photography. Latest: Musée d'Orsay Adds Alfred Verhaeren Studio Interior to Collection.
The Musée d'Orsay has added Alfred Verhaeren's "Coin d'atelier: cartons à dessins et palette devant un tabouret" to its collection. The oil-on-canvas-marouflé-on-wood painting, measuring 41.0 by 51.0 cm, depicts a studio corner with drawing portfolios and a palette before a stool.
The Musée d'Orsay has acquired Théodule Ribot's "Saint Sébastien martyr," an oil on canvas painted around 1865 and first exhibited at the Salon of 1865. The work depicts a later scene from the saint's story, showing St.
The Musée d'Orsay has published a listing of works featuring urban and landscape views from the 19th and early 20th centuries, including photographs by Thomas Annan of Glasgow streets (circa 1868–1871) and views of Paris, Pau, and Venice by artists such as Adolphe Humbert de Molard and René Laliq.
Bonhams will offer Cami Kapisinda (At the Mosque Door) by Osman Hamdi Bey in its 19th Century Paintings and British Impressionist Art sale at New Bond Street in London.
Bonhams will present a dedicated Dog Sale in Edinburgh featuring paintings by Eugène Verboeckhoven, Robert Alexander RSA RSW, John Emms, Arthur Wardle RI, Maud Earl, John Sargent Noble RBA and Morgan Dennis.
The National Portrait Gallery in London has acquired the only known photographs of Ada Lovelace through a private treaty sale facilitated by Bonhams.
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Osman Hamdi Bey's Cami Kapisinda achieved £3,678,400 at Bonhams' 19th Century Paintings and British Impressionist Art sale on 25 March at Bonhams New Bond Street, London.
Bonhams Cornette de Saint Cyr will hold its Old Master Paintings sale in Paris on 21 April 2026.
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