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

We know Rodin the sculptor, but do we know Rodin the draftman? This exhibition presents a spectacular collection of 300 drawings of his last thirty years when drawing was the artist’s predominant form of expression. This late period of Rodin’s career demonstrates the extraordinary tension between the naturalism of a drawing, capturing a gesture, a movement in all its immediacy, and the increasing independence of line and color in the artist’s work. Rodin’s freedom in drawing contributed to opening an immense space for the artists of the 20th century.

In conjunction with the exhibition Capturing the model. Rodin 300 drawings 1890-1917, to be held at the Musée Rodin between November 18th 2011, and February 26th 2012, a selection of about thirty drawings by Paul-Armand Gette will be presented on the first floor of the Hôtel Biron.

Ingrid Cadoret / ingrid@claudinecolin.com

The Centre Pompidou mobile is the first moving museum in the world. Its ambition is to present works from its world-renowned collection of masterpieces (Picasso, Calder, Matisse, Léger…) and make of modern and contemporary art accessible to a very large audience. Designed by the architect Patrick Bouchain, the Centre Pompidou mobile (650m²) will be inaugurated in October 2011 in Chaumont (Haute-Marne), followed by later stops in Cambrai and Boulogne-sur-Mer (Nord-Pas-de-Calais) in 2012.

Ingrid Cadoret / ingrid@claudinecolin.com

This is the first homage exhibition hosted by a Parisian museum dedicated to Fra Angelico, one of the undisputed masters of sacred art. The exhibition brings together nearly 60 works from major international institutions, tracing the career of this major figure from the first Florentine Renaissance alongside other important artists from the Italian Primitive School. Some of them, including Ghiberti, Monaco and Masaccio, had a significant influence on the art of Fra Angelico, while others, such as Gozzoli and Lippi, drew their inspiration from his work.

Christelle Maureau / christelle@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

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.

This exhibition presents the artistic and private universe of the painter Gustave Caillebotte, and his photographer brother Martial. Thanks to some exceptional loans from private collections, many of Gustave’s paintings are presented together with Martial’s photographs for the first time. This exhibition offers a unique perspective into to the rich and fruitful bond that united the two brothers, and invite visitors into the private world of a large Parisian family through changes in urban lifestyles which were taking hold at the dawn of the XXth century.

Christelle Maureau / christelle@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