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Article: Some Italian drawings in the Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris.
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- January 1, 2004
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On 27-30 March last year, I was in Paris with two of my colleagues from the National Galleries of Scotland in order to visit the annual Salon du Dessin held at the Salon Hoche. The raison d'etre was a buying trip for the Scottish Print Room and there, incidentally, we did manage to acquire a fine double-sided sheet by Domenichino for his celebrated altarpiece of the Last Communion of St Jerome and a delightful Tischbein landscape. (1) I later left my colleagues hoping that I might gain access to the Cabinet des Dessins of the Bibliotheque des Arts Decoratifs belonging to the Union Centrale des Arts Decoratifs. As on previous occasions, I again failed to see any drawings in ...
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