Saint-Honoré Art Consulting offers expertise and consulting services, managed since 1999 by Etienne Bréton, former Director of the Department of Old Master Paintings for Sotheby's France.
For over twenty years, S.H.A.C. has brought its expertise to important collectors for the development and evolution of their collections. In addition, our privileged contacts within the world of art allow us to offer our clients very high-quality works suited to their taste. Also, we accompany them in all the steps that bring their collection to life (purchases, restoration, transport and loans to museums) while guaranteeing their anonymity.
In addition to its role with private collectors, S.H.A.C. also contributes to the enrichment of the collections of the greatest museums in the world such as the Louvre, musée d’Orsay, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The J.-Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, The National Gallery of Art, Washington, amongst many others.
Our team
Old masters & 19th century paintings
Etienne Breton
An art historian and expert in Old Master paintings, Etienne Bréton comes from a family of Parisian historians, specialist in prehistory and publishers.
In 1985, Etienne Bréton was in charge of the Old Master Paintings Department at the Gismondi gallery in Paris. Subsequently, in 1986, he took over the management of the Department of Old Master Paintings at Sotheby's Paris for eight years. In 1994, Etienne Bréton joined forces with Marc Blondeau, a specialist in impressionism and 20th century art, enabling the scope of the expertise and consultancy firm to be broadened. Since then, under the entity of Saint-Honoré Art Consulting, he advises and carries out transactions on behalf of French and international collectors and museums.
As an art historian, Etienne Bréton worked with Pascal Zuber for thirty years on the development of the catalogue raisonné of Louis Leopold Boilly, published in 2019 by Arthena. Since 2022, he has been co-curator of the exhibition Boilly. Parisian Chronicles at the Cognacq-Jay Museum in Paris. In parallel, he co-directed in 2005 with Emilie Beck the writing of a book on Jean-Baptiste Pequignot and in 2020, produced in collaboration with Marc Blondeau a two-volume index of catalogues raisonnés called the A.C.I: Art catalog index.
Administrative and customer service manager
Aurelie Freitag
A graduate of the Ecole du Louvre, Aurélie Freitag began her career in the field of decorative arts; her taste for Old Master paintings then led her to join the office of the expert René Millet. The eleven years spent on his team have allowed her to sharpen her eye and develop her knowledge of old master paintings through the extensive research she has conducted there. She joined S.H.A.C. in 2017 as assistant to the expert Étienne Bréton for whom she carried out studies on exceptional works that have made the reputation of his consulting firm. She is also in charge of collector loans for major exhibitions both in France and abroad. She also actively participated in the completion of Louis-Léopold Boilly's catalogue raisonné.
Correspondants
In order to meet the expectations of its customers, S.H.A.C. occasionally collaborates with specialists from other disciplines and from various periods. Thus, we count among our associates: in Paris, Nicolas Schwed, expert and art dealer of old master and 19th century drawings; in Geneva, Marc Blondeau, specialist in 19th and 20th century paintings and contemporary art; and Philippe Davet, specialist in 20th and 21st century art. In Brussels, Renaud Jouslin de Noray is our specialist consultant in sculptures and old master paintings.