For the first time in history, the Chateau de Fontainebleau will exceptionally loan 170 works of arts, furniture and objects evoking the life of Napoléon III and Eugénie and their living space at Fontainebleau, highlighting the eclectic character of late XIXth century style, still underappreciated today. Many of these works, never before seen by the public, will be restored for the occasion and displayed at Fontainebleau following the Bordeaux exhibition.

Samya Ramdane / samya@claudinecolin.com

The first retrospective exhibition dedicated to the work of the artist Jacques Gruber is presented at the Galeries Poirel in Nancy, France. Dating from the 1890 years until the First World War, nearly 150 drawings, paintings, furniture, posters and stained glass from famous international museums (musée d’Orsay and musée des arts décoratifs in Paris, the Royal museums of Brussels, the Virginia museum of Fine Arts ) and prestigious private and public collections, are exhibited.

Albane Champey / albane@claudinecolin.com

The exhibition aims to explore through prestigious Arabic manuscripts, Persian and Turkish held at the BNF, how at the beginning of Islam, was formed out of the figurative, original art based on geometry, the arabesque and calligraphy. The Total Foundation has, through its financial patronage, permitted the digitization of manuscripts.

Sandrine Mahaut / sandrine@claudinecolin.com

Exhibition organized with The Mobilier national, Paris, and the Villa Médicis, Rome In 1683, the royal workshops were undertaking a new tapestry of the story of Moses from eight paintings by Nicolas Poussin, then regarded as the greatest French painter, and two of Le Brun, First Painter to the King. Thanks to the generous loan of the Mobilier National, Museum of Fine Arts of Bordeaux will present the whole tapestry.

Jean Pigozzi's contemporary African art collection (one of the most important ones in the world), will be displayed for the first time alongside works by young Japanese artists under the age of 30. Over the past few years, Pigozzi has acquired several hundred such works, which have never been shown in public before. This duality, the echoes and discords between these two cultures, will be explored at the MAGASIN in an exhibition curated by Carsten Höller.

Valentine Dolla / valentine@claudinecolin.com

From the 17 December 2010 to the 27 April, the Farnese Palace in Rome is exceptionally opening its doors to the public for the exhibition "From The Renaissance to The French Embassy". A selection of 150 works (drawings, sculptures, paintings, art objects) will bring five centuries to life through the history of the Palace, from the splendour of the Farnese family in the 16th century, through the 135 past years, when the Palace served as the headquarters for the French Embassy in Italy and the French School of Rome. An important selection of works from the Farnese collection will return from the site where it was first conceived thanks to the passion of the Farnese family.

Astrid Rappel / astrid@claudinecolin.com

The exhibition will present a hundred drawings, which corresponds to a sixth of the collection of the Ecole nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris (Fine Art School) in Paris. This unique collection is composed of works by professors from 1660-1720, and students from 1750-1790. Following first a chronological then thematic order, the academies will evoque the team of Charles Le Brun and of Versailles (Champaigne, Coypel, Jouvenet, Lafosse, Mignard) then artists from the end of Louis XIV’s reign with Largillierre and Rigaud, to end the exhibition with the Age of Enlightenment, including the Rococo generation (Boucher, Natoire, Nattier, Van Loo) and French Neoclassicists (Vincent, Brenet, Gros, Drouais).

Sandrine Mahaut / sandrine@claudinecolin.com

This fall, as part of the France-Russia Year 2010, the musée de l’Armée (Army Museum) in Paris and the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia, are jointly presenting an exhibition dedicated to the history of the Russian Imperial Guard, and more broadly to the history of Russia through over 150 objects of exceptional and sumptuous characteristics.

Press opening: 7 October 2010 at 9:00 am

The Frac Aquitaine and the Bordeaux musée des beaux-arts cross their views of their collections to mark the acquisition of new works by the Frac Aquitaine in 2009. They propose to shed new light on a selection of their works: old works viewed in the light of the present, and contemporary works seen as a reflection of the past. The complete collection of Frac Aquitaine’s 17 new acquisitions will be presented for the first time in contrast with 19 works from the musée des beaux-arts collection from different schools (French, Flemish, Italian, English) and different periods (from the 17th to the 20th century).

Invention to survive crises: events throughout the year 2010 in 16 cities between France, Switzerland and Germany

From 28 January to 31 December 2010, border cities will create a network through the Métropole Rhin-Rhône association to imagine a communal development including a selection of exhibitions with the theme « utopias & innovations ».

Launch of the event on 28 January in Besançon with the exhibition Charles Fourier. L'écart absolu at the Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie.