Saint-Cloud, Musée du Grand Siècle
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Jacques Sarazin, from Blois to Saint-CloudIt is more gratifying to announce two pieces of good news rather than just one. The Château-Musée de Blois — and its director Bastien Lopez — successfully completed the acquisition of the Bust of…
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The art of passing on. The Antoine Béal collectionShowing private collections, from museum donors, is one of the key axes of the exhibition program at the Musée des Beaux-Arts d’Orléans. After those devoted to the Motais de Narbonne and to…
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The Musée du Grand Siècle enriches its collection of still lifesThe Musée du Grand Siècle had recently acquired two still lifes, both in 2022. One, offered by the La Marck foundation, and a second, by Renaud Levieux, acquired at auction by the association of the…
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Hauts-de-Seine museums purchase two paintings by Jean-Baptiste CorneilleEn 2027, le Musée du Grand Siècle ouvrira ses portes à Saint-Cloud. Un beau projet, que nous suivons depuis le début, et qui bénéficie déjà d’un lieu de préfiguration, le petit château de Sceaux, où…
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The Friends of the Musée du Grand Siècle are launching a crowdfunding campaign for a ParrocelCrowdfunding 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…
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Noël Coypel, painter to the KingFollowing on from Versailles, the Noël Coypel retrospective is now on show at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Rennes. But they are not the same exhibition, even though the two share a common catalogue.…
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Pierre Subleyras 1699-1749"Which French painter, apart perhaps Nicolas Poussin, was like him the greatest painter of Rome?" Thus ends the long essay that precedes Nicolas Lesur’s catalogue raisonné of Pierre Subleyras, just…
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Preemption of the Musée du Grand Siècle at the Artcurial saleMusée de beaux-arts, le futur Musée du Grand Siècle a également pour objectif de faire comprendre aux visiteurs tous les aspects de la vie au XVIIe siècle. Le tableau qu’il vient de préempter chez…
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A foundation stone and a new acquisition for the Musée du Grand SiècleThe Musée du Grand Siècle project, which we have been following since its inception, has just reached a new milestone: the laying of the foundation stone. Although this is a symbolic event (the…
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A landscape by Patel preempted by the Musée du Grand SiècleThis was undoubtedly one of the finest pictures at Christie’s Paris sale on 15 June, but it was nevertheless sold for less than the low estimate. Such are the vagaries of auctions. Be that as it may,…
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