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  • 1825-2025: 200 years of Orléans museums

    Did the Comte de Bizemont imagine, when he convinced Mayor Louis Drouin de Rocheplatte to found a museum, that the institution would become not only one of the largest in France, but also one of the most committed to the future of museums? The [...]

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    - February 21, 2025

  • The Madonna by Henri Gaudier-Brzeska

    One of the few paintings by Henri Gaudier-Brzeska joins the artist's reference collection, assembled from the 1956 donation by Jim Ede (1895-1990) of part of the studio divided between Orléans, the Musée national d'art moderne and Kettle's Yard, [...].

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    - Jan 21, 2025

  • Acquisition of a painting by Il Todeschini

    The work: Mason and shoemaker A large painting by Austrian-born painter Giacomo Francesco Cipper, known as Il Todeschini (1664-1736), joins the ranks of 18th-century Italian paintings, with a subject that is enigmatic to say the least! If the date, circa 1710, [...]

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    - Jan 16, 2025

  • Orléans museums to taste

    For several years now, Cafés Jeanne d'Arc, a veritable Orleans institution since 1899, has been working with the museums of Orleans to build bridges between the city's artistic and heritage treasures and the region's gastronomic expertise. While [...]

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    - Nov 22, 2024

  • A catalog for the Guido Reni exhibition

    In a month and a half, the exhibition 𝘿𝙖𝙣𝙨 𝙡'𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙚𝙧 𝙙𝙚 𝙂𝙪𝙞𝙙𝙤 𝙍𝙚𝙣𝙞 opens, focusing on life in the studio of this 17th-century painter and his rich output. An exceptional catalog, the result of rigorous work by several specialists [...]

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    - Oct 22, 2024

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