Lubin Baugin (1612-1663)

The co-founder of Ethereum has launched Palm, an alternative network for NFTs that doesn’t rack up the hundreds of thousands of tons of CO2 emissions that other sales have been criticized for. Damien Hirst will launch the platform with The Currency Project, a play on the idea of ownership. (The Art Newspaper)

Sébastien Stoskopff (1597-1657) was a still life painter who excelled at rendering materials, raising this work to the rank of a vanity.

After Hubert Robert and Jean-Honoré Fragonard—while awaiting Greuze—the dealer, who exclusively promotes French painting of the 17th and 18th centuries, is dedicating a new exhibition to one of his favorite artists: Anne Vallayer-Coster.

The collections of the leading art historian, which he recently donated to the Hauts-de-Seine département for the future Musée du Grand Siècle in Saint-Cloud, remain as secret as they are astonishing. But the collector now lifts a corner of the veil...