Benjamin Rabier (1864-1939)

Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant (1845-1902) is not one of the best-known Orientalist painters, but he should be, in view of this Harem dans le palais (Harem in the Palace) and the rich variety of his work, highlighted by a Toulouse exhibition in 2014.

Le Corbusier and Pierre Chapo confirm their high ranking with drawings and furniture.

His father made their name famous throughout the world. Benjamin Steinitz, one of the last top dealers in the French 18th century, recently moved to Rue Royale to refocus his activity.

28 drawings and a sketchbook of the Napoleonic Campaigns of 1806-1807 were preempted by the Louvre for €208,400 at an Ivoire Toulouse auction on September 25. Zix (1772-1811), who collaborated with Vivant Denon, was the official illustrator of the Napoleonic Campaigns and the Empire.

The nearly 1,300 lithographs were found in a storage unit belonging to a recently deceased Los Angeles resident, whose relatives contacted the police upon consulting a missing art database. The prints have now been returned to their original owner, lithographer Michael Flaum, from whom they were stolen in 2012.

Broadcaster Zeb Soanes came up with the idea and now the "Britten as a Boy" project has set the target of a year to raise the £99,000 needed. The 9ft statue depicting a 14-year-old Britten atop a wooden groin will be made by Ian Rank-Broadley and will look out to sea in Lowestoft, Suffolk, where Britten was born. (BBC)

When the owners of the Cervercería Giralda began renovation works last year, they certainly weren’t expecting to uncover a beautiful Islamic bathhouse hiding in the walls of their popular tapas bar. Complete with stunning geometric motifs and skylights, the bathhouse dates back to the Almohad Caliphate. (The Guardian)

A drawing depicting Bonaparte on Horseback by Benjamin West and The Wanton Revelling with her Companions by James Northcote, on loan from the American Friends of the Louvre for the past 5 years, will enter the collections. Eight still lifes by French painter Blaise Desgoffe, a specialist in the genre, will join them.

Carved from life, the founding father’s bust confirmed its reputation as a monument of 18th-century sculpture.

The immersive installation "Fifth Avenue Blooms", sponsored by Van Cleef & Arpels and nonprofit Fifth Avenue Association, comprises colorful floral vases and arches in “a giant sketchbook”, even incorporating an outdoor café and real flowers. His solo show “Jardin” opens June 26 at Paris’s Galerie Deroullion. (Artnet)