The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), has returned a bronze stat­uette, Mercury or Antinoüs, to the Musée de la Chartreuse the 18th of January 2013. Provenance research at the MFA led to the dis­covery that the stat­uette had been part of the col­lec­tion of the Musée de la Chartreuse, from which it was stolen in 1901. Since 1904 the Imperial Roman figure, dating to the 1st or 2nd cen­tury AD, has been in the MFA’s col­lec­tion, where it has been iden­ti­fied as Mercury or Hermes, the mes­senger of the gods.

From March 23th to July 8th, 2013, the musée de la Chartreuse of Douai will pre­sent an exhi­bi­tion ded­i­cated to the sculptor Albert Bouquillon (1908-1997), born in Douai and Premier Grand Prix de Rome in 1934.