The village of Barbizon – le village des peintres as it is called in French – is Beautiful: with a capital B. Sixty-one kms (38 miles) north of Paris, artists – Millet, Corot, Rousseau, Decamps, Daubigny and Diaz de la Pena to name only them – came here in the mid to late […]
‘The painting is brand new’, is how Paris’s Louvre Museum describes the restored Leonardo Da Vinci’s 500+-year-old masterpiece, Saint Jean-Baptiste – Saint John the Baptist. Painted around 1517, the 69 cm x 57 cm (27.16 in x 22.44 in) oil on walnut-wood Leonardo Da Vinci masterpiece, has been undergoing years of ‘behind the […]
Should you live in Paris or in France, or planning to visit Paris, you will undoubtedly at some time get on to a Metro or RER train. Not so? Now, for the first time Citymapper has done a survey of the regularity of Paris’s Metro and RER trains. The RER is the metro trains […]
If you are going to be in Paris this Christmas Festive Season, you ought not to miss the exhibition currently at the Picasso Museum. It is the Picasso-Giacometti exhibition: it had opened to crowds on Tuesday, October 4 this year (2016) and runs through to Sunday, February 5, 2017. The half-term school holidays in […]
In 2010 I wrote about the 271 Picasso artworks a French couple – Pierre and Danielle Le Guennec – had stored, maybe hidden, in the garage of their villa in the town of Mouans-Sartoux in the Province-Alpes-Côte d’Azur (PACA) region of France. Monsieur Le Guennec, then 71, a retired electrician, told the police, called […]