{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"La Tribune de l’Art","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.latribunedelart.com","title":"French Enlightenment, from the court of Versailles to Agen","author_name":"Alexandre Lafore","width":"1600","height":"900","url":"https:\/\/www.latribunedelart.com\/french-enlightenment-from-the-court-of-versailles-to-agen","html":"\u003Ch4 class='title'\u003E\u003Ca href='https:\/\/www.latribunedelart.com\/french-enlightenment-from-the-court-of-versailles-to-agen'\u003EFrench Enlightenment, from the court of Versailles to Agen\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cblockquote class='spip'\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAlready renowned for its collections of eighteenth-century French painting, the Mus\u00e9e des Beaux-Arts d\u2019Agen has built around them an exhibition that ranks among the richest of the year : its density suggests that it might have been “sold off in slices” and spun out into several separate events. The rather singular layout of the itinerary, which compelling conservation requirements oblige to be structured in a series of boxes cleverly fitted into the former Jacobins church as at the time of the Goya exhibition (see the article), almost allows visitors to lose their way, or at least to wander in the order of their choosing, or rather of their taste. Around the paintings seized at the ch\u00e2teau d\u2019Aiguillon during the Revolution, the founding core of the museum but above all of this exhibition, the itinerary traces back to the origins\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n"}