On April 22, 2025, the Museums of Orléans and the Friends of the Museums launched a fund-raising campaign to acquire a painting by Jean-Antoine Laurent, who in 1819 captured the memory of his visit to [...].
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- May 6, 2025
For the summer of 2025, the Musée des Beaux-Arts aims to complete its offer by installing an ephemeral café under the arcades, on the forecourt (Place Sainte-Croix) and possibly inside the hall. The aim of the project is to offer a relaxing [...]
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- Apr 24, 2025
The Museums of Orléans and the Friends of the Museums are launching their fourth participatory sponsorship campaign to acquire an emblematic work of art with a Johannine theme. Help the Orléans museums acquire this painting during the Fêtes de Jeanne d'Arc, which celebrates [...]
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- 22 Apr 2025
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 [...]
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- Mar 26, 2025
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
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 [...].
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- February 21, 2025
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
A rediscovery joins the collections of the Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans thanks to the patronage of the Fondation La Marck. This remarkable composition on copper was returned to Charles Le Brun by Nicolas Milovanovic and Philippe Champy, and is now [...].
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- Jan 31, 2025
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
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
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
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