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A new watercolour by Eugène Lami for the Musée Condé
11/4/24 - Acquisition - Chantilly, Musée Condé - On 22 March this year, the Château de Chantilly, which is now very active in terms of acquisitions because it knows how to find sponsors to replace the budgets it lacks, preempted a watercolour by Eugène Lami depicting Louis-Philippe and his family in exile in Claremont (ill. 1) from Daguerre at the Hôtel Drouot.
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- 1. Eugène Lami (1800-1890)
Louis-Philippe and his Family in Exile, in the Salon of the Château de Claremont, 1848
Watercolour - 21.3 x 34.4 cm
Chantilly, Musée Condé
Photo: Daguerre - See the image in its page
Lami is one of the favourite artists of the Musée Condé, which devoted an exhibition to him in 2019. A year earlier, it had acquired a watercolour by his hand (see the news item of 29/3/18), which…