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The Friends of the Musée du Grand Siècle are launching a crowdfunding campaign for a Parrocel

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11/11/24 - Crowdfunding - Saint-Cloud, Musée du Grand Siècle - Crowdfunding is an effective way of enriching a museum’s collections, but the Musée du Grand Siècle had not yet been set up. This has now been done through its Society of Friends. The Society wishes to donate an unpublished painting by Joseph Parrocel entitled The Miseries of War, which will be acquired from the dealer Christophe Janet, for only €12,000.


Joseph Parrocel (1646-1704)
The Miseries of War
Oil on canvas - 67 x 112 cm
Crowdfunding underway for the Musée du Grand Siècle
Photo: Musée du Grand Siècle
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As the artist’s specialist Jérôme Delaplanche, the author of the catalogue raisonné published in 2006 by Arthena, points out, this is a very rare subject in French…

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