MARCH 2026

Trois Crayons Magazine, March 2026

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Not Just the Tudors: Girl With a Pearl Earring: Identity Revealed

Could one of art’s greatest mysteries at last be solved? Who was the luminous girl with a pearl earring in Vermeer's iconic painting? Professor Suzannah Lipscomb is joined by Andrew Graham-Dixon who believes he's finally identified her.

For francophone readers, Adriane Grünberg and Marie Peronnet’s podcast series Affaires de familles visited the de Bayser family in their latest episode. Key figures in the world of Old Master drawings, the four brothers, Augustin, Louis, Matthieu and Patrick recounted, among other adventures, the day when they discovered a treasure.

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Reflections: Stephanie Schrader on Cornelius Saftleven

Back in May 2020, Getty drawings curator Stephanie Schrader spoke with Jim Cuno, president of the J. Paul Getty Trust, about the upside-down world of An Enchanted Cellar with Animals, made by Cornelis Saftleven around 1655 to 1670. The recording was recently uploaded to the Getty Museum’s Youtube channel with further information and a  link to the discussed artwork.

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How Edmond de Rothschild’s Passion Reshaped Our Understanding of the Old Masters, James Mcauley

Almost a century after Baron Edmond de Rothschild’s enormous collection of drawings was donated to the Louvre, historians are still considering his impact. In Town and Country, James Mcauley reflects on de Rothschild’s progress from a schoolboy collector to a compiler of the exceptional, from Dürer to Raphael.