Louvre and Rijksmuseum acquire portraits of husband and wife with a little help from Christie's<br>

The deal includes the 15th-century Virgin of the Pomegranate and a small panel by the artist

A similar work sits in President Obama’s Oval Office, next to a sculpture of Abraham Lincoln

Major gifts and purchases from around the world that stood above the rest

The work by Claudius Jacquand shows a view of the museum’s home, a former Benedictine convent

Other important works bought by the Chinese taxi driver turned billionaire who snared Modigliani’s record-setting nude

Painting’s 19-year-old subject lined up as “poster boy” for the Holburne Museum’s centenary

The Dutch picture depicts a wealthy burgher’s child dispensing alms to a beggar boy and sold for a record $4.4m at auction last year

French naval officer Louis Vignes took images of Beirut, Lebanon and Syria in 1864

Masterpieces will be exhibited together, alternating between the Rijksmuseum and the Louvre

The Art Fund teams up with London's Thomas Dane Gallery to help cash-strapped public collections buy new media works

Now that Dutch government has pledged funds, joint acquisition with French museum seems unlikely

Huguenot carver came to Edinburgh after facing persecution in his native France

Zak Ové’s sculptures will be unveiled in the Great Court this week, before going on display in the African galleries

Richard Wilson’s 20:50 work will leave the Saatchi Gallery in London, and head for David Walsh’s museum in Tasmania—but may go on a world tour first

Institutions agree to donors’ restrictions when the prize is worth it

Zoodram 5 (Recollection) is being jointly acquired by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Philadelphia Museum of Art

The 18th-century work is an early example of racial profiling