Sébastien Bourdon (1616-1671)

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

The Chateau of Versailles hastened to exercise its right of preemption to acquire a pen and ink drawing that tells its story. The French institution paid €1,995 for a Procession at Versailles, a work by Sébastien Leclerc (1637-1714), the king's ordinary engraver who died a year before Louis XIV.

Seventeenth-century French and Swiss enamellers excelled in miniature portraits, historical scenes and landscapes. Europe’s rich and famous loved their pendants, boxes and watchcases featuring remarkably delicate decoration.

This 1665 work is emblematic of the 17th-century flower painter’s precocious virtuosity and one of his early masterpieces.

At this session devoted to decorative arts, one of the star mirrors by the Parisian designer came out ahead of several examples of the work inspired by the father-son design team of Jean and Sébastien Touret.

The start-up founded by Jean-Sébastien Beaucamps has raised $10M from investors such as Alven and ArtNova to expand its business. It quickly made a name for itself in the field thanks to a 5-year partnership with the British Museum, where it launched the NFT editions of Hokusai's The Wave.

The auctioneer, whose archives were acquired in January 2019 by the Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art, died on 27 August at the age of 86. A specialist in modern painting and ethnic art, he was laid off after the Bourdon sale in 1990, and was consultant for the Vérité sale in 2006.

At the Louvre’s invitation, over 70 masterpieces from the Capodimonte Museum are on display at the Parisian institution. A fluid, sensitive and perceptive reading of the two institutions’ collections is paired with innovative exhibition methods.

Jean-Sébastien Jacques will step down as Rio Tinto’s CEO after mine expansion in May destroyed ancient rockshelters at the Juukan Gorge in Western Australia. Permission to mine was granted before it was made clear that the caves housed a trove of Aboriginal objects, but mining went ahead. Officials apologised. (ArtNet)

Some €50,000/80,000 will be needed for The Yellow Sound, a series of 91 gouache and graphite drawings by the Danish painter Richard Mortensen (1910-1993).