Françoise Heilbrun is donating fifteen 19th-century drawings, paintings, and sculptures

Françoise Heilbrun, honorary curator and founder of the photography department at the Musée d’Orsay when it opened in 1986, became one of the major donors to the Musée d’Orléans with her gift of fifteen^19th-century drawings, paintings, and sculptures, leaving a lasting mark on the Orléans collection through her taste. The donation includes two important drawings by Eugène Delacroix, as well as—subject to a right of usufruct—paintings by Louis Boulanger, Victor Galland, Lecomte du Nouÿ, George Lefrançois, Jean-Antoine Laurent, and Suzanne Lalique—all subject to a right of usufruct—drawings by Théodore Chassériau, Camille Chenou, Paul Huet, Hippolyte Lazerges, and Johann Nepomuk Höfel, as well as a sculpture by Auguste Debay. The drawings have been on display since November 15 in the exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in Orléans’s graphic arts galleries, dedicated to ten years of donations of drawings.