The life
of the collections

    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

    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

    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

    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 Charles Le Brun

    A rediscovery joins the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts of Orléans thanks to the patronage of the Fondation de Luxembourg. This remarkable composition on copper was returned to Charles Le Brun by Nicolas Milovanovic and Philippe Champy and comes […]

    Read the article Charles Le Brun (1619-1690) The Deploration of Christ

    - Jan 31, 2025

    Acquisition of Eugène Devéria's medallion by David d'Angers

    The Orleans collections took a radically Romantic turn under the direction of Eudoxe Marcille, from 1870 to 1890. His aim was to bring together groups of works that were representative of Romanticism, at a time when the [...] generation was [...].

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    - Feb 10, 2025

    Pierre Poncet le Jeune: The Charity of Saint Anne

    In 2016, the museum attempted to acquire this drawing, then attributed to the Spanish school, but in fact preparatory to an altarpiece painted around 1640 by Orléans-born Pierre Poncet, which was seized during the French Revolution and [...].

    Read the article Pierre Poncet le Jeune (1612-1659), La Charité de sainte Anne, circa 1640, pen, wash and ink on paper, 26 x 21 cm, inv. 2024.25.1, acquired thanks to the Friends of the Museums of Orléans

    - February 21, 2025

    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

    A legendary triptych: William Etty at Beaux-Arts

    In the 19th century, Joan of Arc exerted a fascination far beyond the borders of France, and even in England, which maintained an ambiguous relationship with her memory. William Etty, one of the leading English artists of the first half of the century, dedicated his [...]

    Read the article William Etty (York, 1787- id., 1849), Joan of Arc finds the sword in the chapel of Sainte-Catherine-de-Fierbois, 1846

    - Mar 26, 2025

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