It is a shared passion for the Middle Ages that brought together Charles Ratton and Guy Ladrière. In 1984, they founded the Galerie Charles Ratton – Guy Ladrière on the Right Bank. Following Charles’s passing, the gallery relocated to the Left Bank on Quai Voltaire. In 2001, Sandrine Ladrière, his daughter, chose to join Guy Ladrière.

Facing the Louvre, collectors, enthusiasts, and curators discover Guy Ladrière’s deep interest in sculpture from Antiquity to the 18th century. At this address, marble, terracotta, polychrome wood, and bronzes are shown alongside drawings and paintings by Fragonard, Boucher, Tiepolo, Ridolfi, Le Nain, and Greuze.

The gallery’s international reputation for refinement and quality has earned it a clientele that includes major museums such as the Louvre, Cluny, and Versailles, as well as institutions abroad including the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the National Gallery in Washington, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, the Uffizi in Florence, the Galleria Estense in Modena, the Copenhagen Museum, the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, and the Museum of Western Art in Tokyo, as well as numerous private collectors.

The gallery has exhibited at major international fairs including the Biennale des Antiquaires, the Salon du Collectionneur in Paris, the Hospices de Beaune in Burgundy, BRAFA, the Grands Antiquaires & Libraires fair, the Château de la Hulpe in Brussels, the Florence Biennale, the New York Fine Arts Fair, the Salzburg World Fine Art Fair, the Sculpture European Fair in Berlin, and the Moscow World Fine Art Fair.