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Galerie Cybèle
Paris, France · founded 1988
Paris antiquities gallery founded in 1988 by Jean-Pierre Montesino, specialising in ancient Egypt, with a bookshop and publishing house for Egyptology; exhibits at TEFAF and Fine Arts Paris.
About
Galerie Cybèle is a Paris gallery that, according to its own account, was founded in 1988 by Jean-Pierre Montesino1,3. It offers Mediterranean antiquities with a speciality in ancient Egypt, and it also runs a bookshop and a publishing house for Egyptology2,3.
Its fair appearances include TEFAF, where it is listed under archaeology and Egyptology, and Fine Arts Paris, where it shows Egyptian funerary art such as a painted wooden panel of the goddess Imentet from the Third Intermediate Period1,2.
An Egyptian shabti held by the gallery by 2015 was sold at Sotheby's New York on 15 December 2016, lot 375.
History
- 1988Jean-Pierre Montesino founds Galerie Cybèle in Paris; French company records list CYBELE (SIREN 347474876) created 11 July 1988 and SCI MONTESINO (SIREN 347450785) created 6 July 1988, both at 65 bis rue Galande, 75005.
ParisGalerie Cybele, TEFAF exhibitor… 2026Annuaire des entreprises (API… 2026
- 2015Galerie Cybele held an Egyptian shabti (ex-Japanese private collection, Charles Haumont, Brussels) by 2015, later Sotheby's New York 15 Dec 2016 lot 37; not Cypriot.
- 2026Exhibits at Fine Arts Paris (Grand Palais); also listed as a TEFAF exhibitor; shows Egyptian funerary art such as a painted wooden Third Intermediate Period panel of the goddess Imentet.
ParisGalerie Cybèle, Fine Arts… 2026Galerie Cybele, TEFAF exhibitor… 2026
People
1 personStaff and members · 1
- Jean-Pierre Montesinofounder (from 1988)Galerie Cybele, TEFAF exhibitor… 2026Galerie Cybele, MasterArt gallery… 2026
Sources
- 1. (2026). “Galerie Cybele, TEFAF exhibitor page”. Online
- 2. (2026). “Galerie Cybèle, Fine Arts Paris exhibitor page”. Online
- 3. (2026). “Galerie Cybele, MasterArt gallery directory”. Online
- 4. (2026). “Annuaire des entreprises (API recherche-entreprises.api.gouv.fr): CYBELE, SIREN 347474876, and SCI MONTESINO, SIREN 347450785”. Online
- 5. (2018). “Journal article table of Egyptian shabti provenances, p. 16 (doi 10.1086/697390): Sotheby's New York 15 Dec 2016 lot 37 previously Galerie Cybele, Paris, by 2015”. Online