Versailles, Musée et domaine national du château
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An emperor of China at VersaillesPatience is the mother of virtue, the Versailles teams must be saying to themselves as they watched an impressive Sèvres porcelain biscuit slip away in the spring, its reappearance causing quite a…
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Rosalba Carriera enters VersaillesIt is a work that would have been a wonderful addition to the exhibition devoted to King Louis XV), where the absence of pastel portraits of the monarch was deplored: one of them was awaiting its…
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Desmarais in Versailles, Amiens and AjaccioComment ne pas y voir le chef-d’œuvre de l’artiste ? Au mois de juin, la vente à Paris du portrait du sculpteur Antoine-Denis Chaudet par Jean-Baptiste Frédéric Desmarais n’a pas manqué d’exciter les…
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Two other 17th century drawings for VersaillesOutre le pastel de Simon Vouet, deux autres feuilles XVIIe ont récemment rejoint les collections du château de Versailles. Une étude pour la statue des Mathématiques du parterre du Midi a été achetée…
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A pastel by Vouet acquired by VersaillesThree years after its exhibition Drawings for Versailles: Twenty Years of Acquisitions, the Château de Versailles is pursuing its acquisition policy in this area as dynamically as ever. A major…
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Horace VernetAt the 1855 Universal Exhibition, which took the place of the Salon and where foreign schools came to confront the French school, the latter put four painters in the limelight, who benefited from…
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Christophe Leribault leaves Orsay for VersaillesAlthough we knew a few days ago that Catherine Pégard’s succession had - at last - been settled, with the as yet unannounced appointment of Christophe Leribault as President of the Etablissement…
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Two exceptional pedestals by André-Charles Boulle return to VersaillesThey were placed in the Salon de l’Abondance in the heart of the Grands Appartements du Roi at Versailles. The two exceptional pedestals by André-Charles Boulle had joined the Versailles…
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Versailles completes the refurbishment of Marie-Antoinette’s bedroomWhile some rooms in the former residences of French sovereigns are doomed to remain empty due to the certain disappearance of the objects that originally furnished them, or the impossibility of…
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At Versailles, the irregularity is getting worseWe won’t go back over Catherine Pégard’s illegitimacy as president of the Versailles public establishment. She has long since exceeded all the age and term limits laid down by law. The Ministry of…
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