Ferdinand Berthoud (1727-1807)

Ferdinand Parpan and Georges Jouve both sought purity through sculpture and ceramics.

Ferdinand Loyen du Puigaudeau is an unclassifiable artist born in Brittany, a region he loved. He immortalized the world’s beauty without affectation and was guided by an obsession: light.

The spirit of the “great centuries” reigns over this auction of the contents of a château. A landscape by Marinus (1808-1890) preceded a selection of often imposingly sized period furniture and decorative objects.

Under new law allowing taxpayers to donate important pieces of cultural heritage to the nation in lieu of some taxes, a Lovis Corinth portrait has been acquired by National Gallery and the Barber Institute of Fine Arts. The work shows a German-Jewish gynecologist and intellectual who resisted the Nazis. (Hyperallergic)

Sold under the hammer of Tessier Sarrou on Friday at Drouot, the Portrait of Charles Ferdinand Théodore de Vassinhac d'Imécourt, who died in the prime of life during the siege of Dantzig, quintupled its high estimate. The portrait had remained with the descendants of Ferdinand Imécourt's older brother until now.

Since 2008, Rolex has been responsible for the maintenance and restoration of the Château of Fontainebleau's clock collection. After an extensive sponsorship campaign, the once-neglected timepieces are marking time at the site again.

Artists Maxime Maufra, Henri Martin and Ferdinand du Puigaudeau all captured the special atmosphere of the seaside and lagoons.

Today, Margaret Campbell Macpherson might not be a household name, yet she was a major artist at the turn of the 20th century. Her long, productive career brought her from Newfoundland to France.

The National Gallery in London and the Barber Institute of Fine Arts in Birmingham, which have jointly acquired a portrait by Lovis Corinth (1858-1925) of the German physician and historian Ferdinand Mainzer: exhibited alternately between the two institutions, it will first be shown in Birmingham.

Five Old Master paintings were audaciously stolen from the Friedenstein Palace in Gotha, Germany in 1979. Only recovered in September 2019, one of the paintings, “Old Man”, is now suspected to be a genuine Rembrandt, having previously been attributed to his student, Ferdinand Bol.