Paris Tableau

The International Fair
of Old Master Painting

Created in 2011, Paris Tableau is an initiative of ten dealers whose goal was not only to promote the profession of antique dealer, but above all: to share with as many people as possible their immoderate taste for old master painting.

Maurizio Canesso, Heré Aaron, Éric Coatalem, Bertrand Gautier, Bob Haboldt, Jean-François Heim, Georges de Jonckheere, Jacques Leegenhoek, Giovanni Sarti and Claude Vittet joined forces to create a company to bring their project to life.

L’Agence d’Evénements Culturels was their service provider from the beginning, acting as both organizer and manager.

In 2012, the Mobilier National presented the Les trésors retrouvés des Gogelins (Treasures found again from the Gobelins) (2012), and exhibition which unveiled to the public a dozen painted canvases and cartoons discovered in the reserves of the Mobilier National thanks to the findings of the curator Arnauld Brejon de Lavergnée, and to a patient and rigorous restoration work.

From the painted cartoon to the woven work, there is only one step, and it is this unique process that the Trésors retrouvés des Gobelins exhibition highlighted.

In 2013, the focus was on exploring the legal and tax avenues specific to the French system that encourage the creation of collections through donation under usufruct.

That same year, Paris Tableau made its contribution to art history by paying tribute to the famous art historian Federico Zeri through a joint symposium with the Zeri Foundation : Federico Zeri and the Connoisseurship.

In 2014, Paris Tableau shed light on the different ways of conceiving and building a collection, whether one is a private collector, a foundation, or a public institution.

This was the subject of the exhibition Trois collections, une seule passion (Three collections, one passion), presenting masterpieces from the Centraal Museum in Utrecht, the P. & N. de Boer Foundation, and AXA ART.

In partnership with the Custodia Foundation, the symposium Utrecht et le mouvement caravagesque international (Utrecht and the international Caravaggist movemen), brought together experts from around the world, including Dr. Liesbeth M. Helmus, curator of old paintings at the Centraal Museum in Utrecht, and Prof. Dr. Volker Manuth, professor of art history at Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen.