Musée de la Vie Romantique
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The Musée de la Vie romantique (The Museum of Romantic Life, or Museum of the Romantics) stands at the foot of Montmartre
hill in the IXe arrondissement
, 16 rue Chaptal, Paris
, France
in a 1830 hôtel particulier facing two twin-studios, a greenhouse, a small garden, and a paved courtyard. The museum is open daily except Monday. Permanent collections are free. An admission fee is charged for temporary exhibitions. The nearest métro stations are Pigalle
, Blanche
, Saint-Georges
, and Liège
.
(1795-1858), one of the prominent artists of the time, close to King Louis-Philippe and his family. For decades, Scheffer and his daughter hosted Friday-evening salons, among the most famous in La Nouvelle Athènes. George Sand
(1804-1876) used to come as a neighbour with Frederic Chopin
, meeting Eugène Delacroix
, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
, Alphonse de Lamartine
, and singer Pauline Viardot. Later in the century, Charles Dickens
, Ivan Turgueniev, and Charles Gounod
attended regularly.
and the Maison de Victor Hugo
. After an extensive renovation conducted by Jacques Garcia
under the direction of Anne-Marie de Brem, it reopened in 1987 as "Musée de la Vie romantique". Daniel Marchesseau, conservateur général du Patrimoine, has been appointed director in november 1998. Since then, he has developped an ambitious program of exhibitions and acquisitions. Attendance has widely grown, from 18.000 visitors a year (1998) to 145.000 in 2010.
, including family portraits, household possessions, pieces of jewelry and memorabilia among which plaster casts of the writer's sensuous right arm and Chopin's delicate left hand, plus a number of her own unique and rare watercolours called "dendrites".
On the second floor, one can admire a number of Romantic paintings, sculptures and objets d'art . Paintings by Ary Scheffer include portraits of Pauline Viardot, Queen Marie-Amélie, Princesse de Joinville, Princesse Marie d'Orléans, as well as oils of The Giaour (after Lord Byron), Faust and Marguerite
, Effie and Jeanie Deans after The Heart of Midlothian
by Walter Scott
. Works by his contemporaries include François Bouchot (Maria Malibran
), François Debon
, Charles Durupt, Louis Hersent
, Redouté, Roqueplan. Sculptures are by Barre
, Théophile Bra
, Auguste Clésinger
, Dantan
, David d'Angers, Jean-Jacques Feuchère
, François-Désiré Froment-Meurice
, James Pradier
... The Museum also displays several portraits and material linked to the famous scholar and writer Ernest Renan
who had married Ary Scheffer's niece.
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Montmartre
Montmartre is a hill which is 130 metres high, giving its name to the surrounding district, in the north of Paris in the 18th arrondissement, a part of the Right Bank. Montmartre is primarily known for the white-domed Basilica of the Sacré Cœur on its summit and as a nightclub district...
hill in the IXe arrondissement
IXe arrondissement
The 9th arrondissement , located on the Right Bank, is one of the 20 arrondissements of Paris, France. It contains many places of cultural, historical, and architectural interest, including the Palais Garnier, home to the Paris Opera, Boulevard Haussmann and its large department stores of Galeries...
, 16 rue Chaptal, Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
, France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
in a 1830 hôtel particulier facing two twin-studios, a greenhouse, a small garden, and a paved courtyard. The museum is open daily except Monday. Permanent collections are free. An admission fee is charged for temporary exhibitions. The nearest métro stations are Pigalle
Pigalle (Paris Metro)
Pigalle is a station on lines 2 and 12 of the Paris Métro, named after the Place Pigalle, which commemorates the sculptor Jean-Baptiste Pigalle on the border of the 9th and the 18th arrondissement...
, Blanche
Blanche (Paris Metro)
Blanche is a station on Paris Métro Line 2, on the border of the 9th and the 18th arrondissement. The station is located under the Boulevard de Clichy in Montmartre....
, Saint-Georges
Saint-Georges (Paris Metro)
Saint-Georges is a station on Line 12 of the Paris Métro in the 9th arrondissement.The station opened on 8 April 1911 as part of the extension of the Nord-Sud company's line A from Notre-Dame-de-Lorette to Pigalle. On 27 March 1931 line A became line 12 of the Métro...
, and Liège
Liège (Paris Metro)
Liège is a station on line 13 of the Paris Métro on the border of the 8th and 9th arrondissements.It was built as part of the Nord-Sud Company's Line B from Saint-Lazare to Porte de Saint-Ouen and opened on 26 February 1911 as Berlin, named after the nearby Rue Berlin...
.
The Property
The main pavilion, built in 1830, was the Paris base of the Dutch-born painter Ary SchefferAry Scheffer
Ary Scheffer , French painter of Dutch and German extraction, was born in Dordrecht.-Life:After the early death of his father Johann Baptist, a poor painter, Ary's mother Cornelia, herself a painter and daughter of landscapist Arie Lamme, took him to Paris and placed him in the studio of...
(1795-1858), one of the prominent artists of the time, close to King Louis-Philippe and his family. For decades, Scheffer and his daughter hosted Friday-evening salons, among the most famous in La Nouvelle Athènes. George Sand
George Sand
Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, later Baroness Dudevant , best known by her pseudonym George Sand , was a French novelist and memoirist.-Life:...
(1804-1876) used to come as a neighbour with Frederic Chopin
Frédéric Chopin
Frédéric François Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist. He is considered one of the great masters of Romantic music and has been called "the poet of the piano"....
, meeting Eugène Delacroix
Eugène Delacroix
Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school...
, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres was a French Neoclassical painter. Although he considered himself to be a painter of history in the tradition of Nicolas Poussin and Jacques-Louis David, by the end of his life it was Ingres's portraits, both painted and drawn, that were recognized as his greatest...
, Alphonse de Lamartine
Alphonse de Lamartine
Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de Lamartine was a French writer, poet and politician who was instrumental in the foundation of the Second Republic.-Career:...
, and singer Pauline Viardot. Later in the century, Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English novelist, generally considered the greatest of the Victorian period. Dickens enjoyed a wider popularity and fame than had any previous author during his lifetime, and he remains popular, having been responsible for some of English literature's most iconic...
, Ivan Turgueniev, and Charles Gounod
Charles Gounod
Charles-François Gounod was a French composer, known for his Ave Maria as well as his operas Faust and Roméo et Juliette.-Biography:...
attended regularly.
The Museum
The property remained by descent in private hands till 1982 when it became a museum, under the name of "Musée Renan-Scheffer". It is now one of the City of Paris' three literary museums, along with the Maison de BalzacMaison de Balzac
The Maison de Balzac is a house museum in the former residence of French novelist Honoré de Balzac . It is located in the 16th arrondissement at 47, rue Raynouard, Paris, France, and open daily except Mondays and holidays; admission to the house is free, but a fee is charged for its temporary...
and the Maison de Victor Hugo
Maison de Victor Hugo
Maison de Victor Hugo is a museum, operated by the City of Paris, which preserves the house that Victor Hugo lived in for 16 years from 1832–1848.-History:...
. After an extensive renovation conducted by Jacques Garcia
Jacques Garcia
Jacques Garcia, is a French architect, interior designer and garden designer, best known for his contemporary interiors of Paris hotels and restaurants.-Biography:...
under the direction of Anne-Marie de Brem, it reopened in 1987 as "Musée de la Vie romantique". Daniel Marchesseau, conservateur général du Patrimoine, has been appointed director in november 1998. Since then, he has developped an ambitious program of exhibitions and acquisitions. Attendance has widely grown, from 18.000 visitors a year (1998) to 145.000 in 2010.
The Collections
The Museum displays on the first floor numerous mementos of most notorious romantic charracter and writer George SandGeorge Sand
Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, later Baroness Dudevant , best known by her pseudonym George Sand , was a French novelist and memoirist.-Life:...
, including family portraits, household possessions, pieces of jewelry and memorabilia among which plaster casts of the writer's sensuous right arm and Chopin's delicate left hand, plus a number of her own unique and rare watercolours called "dendrites".
On the second floor, one can admire a number of Romantic paintings, sculptures and objets d'art . Paintings by Ary Scheffer include portraits of Pauline Viardot, Queen Marie-Amélie, Princesse de Joinville, Princesse Marie d'Orléans, as well as oils of The Giaour (after Lord Byron), Faust and Marguerite
Faust and Marguerite
Faust and Marguerite is a romantic opera in three acts, dating from 1855, based on the Faust legend. The score was composed by Meyer Lutz. The libretto was written by Henri Drayton based on the Johann Wolfgang von Goethe poem Faust....
, Effie and Jeanie Deans after The Heart of Midlothian
The Heart of Midlothian
The Heart of Midlothian is the seventh of Sir Walter Scott’s Waverley Novels. It was originally published in four volumes on 25 July 1818, under the title of Tales of My Landlord, 2nd series, and the author was given as "Jedediah Cleishbotham, Schoolmaster and Parish-clerk of Gandercleugh"...
by Walter Scott
Walter Scott
Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet was a Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet, popular throughout much of the world during his time....
. Works by his contemporaries include François Bouchot (Maria Malibran
Maria Malibran
The mezzo-soprano Maria Malibran , was one of the most famous opera singers of the 19th century. Malibran was known for her stormy personality and dramatic intensity, becoming a legendary figure after her death at age 28...
), François Debon
François Debon
François Hyppolite Debon , was a French painter. He studied under Antoine-Jean Gros and Abel de Pujol, and exhibited at the Paris Salon, where he won several medals, including a third class one in 1844 and two second class ones in 1835 and 1868...
, Charles Durupt, Louis Hersent
Louis Hersent
Louis Hersent was a French painter.]Born in Paris, he became a pupil of David, and obtained the Prix de Rome in 1797. In the Salon of 1802 appeared his "Metamorphosis of Narcissus", and he continued to exhibit with rare interruptions up to 1831...
, Redouté, Roqueplan. Sculptures are by Barre
Barre
-People:* Abdulrahman Jama Barre, Somali Foreign Minister* Barre Phillips , jazz and free improvisation bassist* Erika Michelle Barré , Canadian model* Isaac Barré , British soldier and politician...
, Théophile Bra
Théophile Bra
Théophile François Marcel Bra was a French Romantic sculptor and exact contemporary of Eugène Delacroix. He was deeply involved in the Romantic era through his uncompromising personality and complex spirituality...
, Auguste Clésinger
Auguste Clésinger
Auguste Clésinger was a 19th-century French sculptor and painter.- Life :...
, Dantan
Dantan
Dantan I is an administrative division in the Kharagpur subdivision of Paschim Medinipur district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Dantan police station serves this block...
, David d'Angers, Jean-Jacques Feuchère
Jean-Jacques Feuchère
Jean-Jacques Feuchère was a French sculptor.He was a student of Jean-Pierre Cortot, and among his students was Jacques-Léonard Maillet.-Selected works:* Relief panel Le Pont d'Arcole, Arc de Triomphe, Paris, 1833-1834...
, François-Désiré Froment-Meurice
François-Désiré Froment-Meurice
François-Désiré Froment-Meurice was a French goldsmith, working in a free and naturalistic manner in the tradition of Mannerist and Baroque masters...
, James Pradier
James Pradier
James Pradier, also known as Jean-Jacques Pradier was a Swiss-born French sculptor best known for his work in the neoclassical style.-Life and work:...
... The Museum also displays several portraits and material linked to the famous scholar and writer Ernest Renan
Ernest Renan
Ernest Renan was a French expert of Middle East ancient languages and civilizations, philosopher and writer, devoted to his native province of Brittany...
who had married Ary Scheffer's niece.
Exhibitions and catalogues
1984- La Nouvelle Athènes, by Dominique Morel
1985
- Achille DevériaAchille DevériaAchille Jacques-Jean-Marie Devéria was a French painter and lithographer. His father was a civil employee of the navy and student of Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson and Louis Lafitte ....
, by Dominique Morel
1986
- Franz LisztFranz LisztFranz Liszt ; ), was a 19th-century Hungarian composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher.Liszt became renowned in Europe during the nineteenth century for his virtuosic skill as a pianist. He was said by his contemporaries to have been the most technically advanced pianist of his age...
, by Dominique Morel
1988
- Lord Byron, by Anne-Marie de Brem & al.
1989
- Le Larmoyeur by Ary Scheffer, by Anne-Marie de Brem.
1990
- François Alexandre Pernot, by Denis Cailleaux.
1991
- Lamartine, by Anne-Marie de Brem and Marie-Renée Morin.
1992
- Ary Scheffer's Studio, by Anne-Marie de Brem.
1993
- Louis HersentLouis HersentLouis Hersent was a French painter.]Born in Paris, he became a pupil of David, and obtained the Prix de Rome in 1797. In the Salon of 1802 appeared his "Metamorphosis of Narcissus", and he continued to exhibit with rare interruptions up to 1831...
, by Anne-Marie de Brem.
1994
- Le Cliché-verre : CorotCorotCorot may refer to:* Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, French landscape painter * COROT, a space mission with the dual aims of finding extrasolar planets and performing asteroseismology* COROT-7, a dwarf star in the Monoceros constellation...
, DelacroixDelacroixDelacroix derives from de la Croix . It may refer to:In people:* Caroline Delacroix , French-Romanian mistress of Leopold II of Belgium* Charles-François Delacroix , French ambassador to the Netherlands...
, MilletMilletThe millets are a group of small-seeded species of cereal crops or grains, widely grown around the world for food and fodder. They do not form a taxonomic group, but rather a functional or agronomic one. Their essential similarities are that they are small-seeded grasses grown in difficult...
, Rousseau, Daubigny, by Alain Paviot.
- Jacques ChazotJacques ChazotJacques Chazot, Jacques Chazot, Jacques Chazot, (b. 25 September 1928 in Locmiquélic (Morbihan), d. 12 July 1993 in Monthyon (Seine-et-Marne) was a French dancer and socialite.-Biography:He joins Opéra de Paris in 1947. In 1956, he joins Opéra-Comique...
, by Pierre BergéPierre BergéPierre Bergé is a French industrialist and patron. He is perhaps best known as the co-founder of Yves Saint Laurent Couture House and former partner of fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent.-Early life:...
.
1995
- Georges RougetGeorges RougetGeorges Rouget was a neoclassical French painter.- Life :After studying in the école des beaux-arts, Rouget entered David's studio in 1797 and rapidly became his favourite student...
, by Alain Pougetoux.
1996
- Ary SchefferAry SchefferAry Scheffer , French painter of Dutch and German extraction, was born in Dordrecht.-Life:After the early death of his father Johann Baptist, a poor painter, Ary's mother Cornelia, herself a painter and daughter of landscapist Arie Lamme, took him to Paris and placed him in the studio of...
, by Leo Ewals.
1997
- Romantic Paintings from the Musée du Petit Palais, by Thérèse Burollet.
1998
- Alfred de VignyAlfred de VignyAlfred Victor de Vigny was a French poet, playwright, and novelist.-Life:Alfred de Vigny was born in Loches into an aristocratic family...
, by Loïc Chotard.
- Enameled Lavas, by Georges Brunel.
1999
- Jean MaraisJean Marais-Biography:A native of Cherbourg, France, Marais starred in several movies directed by Jean Cocteau, for a time his lover, most famously Beauty and the Beast and Orphée ....
, A Romantic Hero by Daniel Marchesseau. Contributions by Patrick Mauriès, Daniel Marchesseau and Stéphane Ferrand.
- Sand – Musset / The Story of the Film : "Les Enfants du siècle", directed by Diane KurysDiane KurysDiane Kurys is a French filmmaker and actress. Several of her films as director are autobiographical. Born in Lyon, Rhône, France, her parents divorced when she was a child. She began as an actress with Jean-Louis Barrault's company. She gained film stardom, but didn't like the roles she was...
, with Juliette BinocheJuliette BinocheJuliette Binoche is a French actress, artist and dancer. She has appeared in more than 40 feature films, been recipient of numerous international accolades, is a published author and has appeared on stage across the world. Coming from an artistic background, she began taking acting lessons during...
and Benoît MagimelBenoît MagimelBenoît Magimel is a French actor. A prolific actor who was 14 when he appeared in his first film, Magimel has starred in a variety of roles in French cinema....
(no catalogue).
2000
- French Romantic Jewelry (1820-1850), by Daniel Marchesseau. Contributions by Evelyne Possémé, Daniel Marchesseau, Isabelle Julia, Marie-Noëlle de Grandry, Diana Scarisbrick, Claudette Joannis and Pauline de Ayala.
- Sam SzafranSam SzafranSam Szafran is a French artist.-Biography:Sam Szafran was born in Paris in 1934, a son of Polish Jewish immigrants. He grew up in the Quartier des Halles. Hidden in the countryside and later in Switzerland during World War II he returned to Paris in 1951, after four years in Australia...
, by Daniel Marchesseau, with an essay by Michel Le Bris.
2001
- French Romantic Drawings from Paris Private Collections, by Louis-Antoine Prat.
- Hungarian Photography, from Romanticism to Avant-Garde, by Daniel Marchesseau. Contributions by Catherine de Bourgoing, Anne Cartier-Bresson and Karoly Kincses.
2002
- André MalrauxAndré MalrauxAndré Malraux DSO was a French adventurer, award-winning author, and statesman. Having traveled extensively in Indochina and China, Malraux was noted especially for his novel entitled La Condition Humaine , which won the Prix Goncourt...
, by Solange Thierry. Contributions by Marc LambronMarc LambronMarc Lambron is a French writer and winner of the Prix Femina, 1993, for L'Oeil du silence.-Bibliography:* Les Menteurs* L'Impromptu de Madrid, * L'Œil du silence * 1941* Étrangers dans la nuit...
, Solange Thierry, Daniel Marchesseau, Pierre Cabanne, Antoine Terrasse, Christiane Moatti, Gilles Béguin and Germain Viatte.
- Martine FranckMartine FranckMartine Franck is a Belgian photographer, and a member of the Magnum Photos agency. She was the second wife of photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson after his divorce from Ratna Mohini, and is president and co-founder of the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation, which administrates his estate.- Biography...
, Photographs, by Daniel Marchesseau, with an essay by Gérard Macé.
- Constantin GuysConstantin GuysConstantin Guys, Ernest-Adolphe-Hyacinthe-Constantin, was a Crimean War correspondent, water color painter and illustrator for British and French newspapers. Baudelaire called him the "painter of modern life," and wrote a long essay on Guys in which he extensively praised his works, under the...
- Drawings from Musée Carnavalet and Petit Palais, by Daniel Marchesseau. Contributions by Claude Pichois, Daniel Marchesseau, Jérôme Dufilho, Christine Lancha, José de Los Llanos and John RichardsonJohn Richardson- Politics :*John Richardson , Deputy Governor of Anguilla* John G. Richardson , former Speaker of the Maine House and current candidate for Governor.* John S...
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2003
- The François-Désiré Froment-MeuriceFrançois-Désiré Froment-MeuriceFrançois-Désiré Froment-Meurice was a French goldsmith, working in a free and naturalistic manner in the tradition of Mannerist and Baroque masters...
Goldsmith Dynasty, by Daniel Marchesseau. Contributions by Ambassador Henri Froment-Maurice, Daniel Marchesseau, Anne Dion-Tenenbaum, Marc Bascou, Daniel Alcouffe, Fernando A. Martin, Marie-Madeleine Massé, Bernard Berthod, Nicole Garnier, Emmanuelle Toulet, Cécile Ullmann, Liliane Hamelin and Catherine de Bourgoing.
- Gustave MoreauGustave MoreauGustave Moreau was a French Symbolist painter whose main emphasis was the illustration of biblical and mythological figures. As a painter of literary ideas, Moreau appealed to the imaginations of some Symbolist writers and artists.- Biography :Moreau was born in Paris. His father, Louis Jean Marie...
- Works on paper from the Musée Gustave Moreau, by Marie-Cécile Forest and Daniel Marchesseau. Contributions by Jérôme Godeau, Marie-Cécile Forest, Luisa Capodieci, Raphael Rosenberg and Dominique Lobstein.
2004
- Impressionnism and the Rouart Family, by Solange Thierry. Contributions by Daniel Marchesseau, Jean-Dominique Rey, Françoise Heilbrun, Anne Distel, Louis-Antoine Prat, Agathe Valéry-Rouart, Bertrand Marchal, Catherine de Bourgoing, Gabriel Rouart, Sophie Monneret, Dominique Bona, François Chapon and Jean-Marie RouartJean-Marie RouartJean-Marie Rouart is a French novelist, essayist and journalist. He was elected to the Académie française December 18, 1997.-Bibliography:*1974 La Fuite en Pologne...
.
- George SandGeorge SandAmantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, later Baroness Dudevant , best known by her pseudonym George Sand , was a French novelist and memoirist.-Life:...
by Jérôme Godeau. Contributions by Diane de Margerie, Yves Gagneux, Françoise Heilbrun, Isabelle Leroy-Jay Lemaistre, Claude Samuel, Arlette Sérullaz, Vincent Pomarède, Nicole Savy and Martine Reid.
2005
- Richard LindnerRichard Lindner (painter)Richard Lindner was a German-American painter.- Biography :Richard Lindner was born in Hamburg. His mother Mina Lindner was American and born in New York as daughter of German parents...
Adults-Only , by Daniel Marchesseau. Contributions by Anouk Kopelman-Papadiamandis, Eduardo ArroyoEduardo ArroyoEduardo Arroyo is a Spanish painter and graphic artist. He is also active as an author and set designer.Arroyo, who was born in Madrid, studied art in his home city, but left Spain in 1958 because of his basic contempt for the regime of Francisco Franco and...
, Judith Zilczer, Cécile Schenck, Alain Weill, Nicole Colin-Otto and Catherine de Bourgoing.
- The Braziliana Collection - Romantic Travelling Painters in Brazil by Daniel Marchesseau. Contributions by Marcelo Mattos Araujo, Carlos Martins, Daniel Marchesseau, Maria de Lourdes Eleutério, Valeria Piccoli, Jorge Coli, Luiz Dantas, Martine Bailleux-Delbecq and Xavier Dufestel.
2006
- Picasso-Crommelynck by Daniel Marchesseau. Contributions by Jean ClairJean ClairJean Clair is the nom de plume of Gérard Régnier . He is an essayist, a polemicist, an art historian, an art conservator, and a member of the French Academy since May, 2008. He was, for many years, the director of the Picasso Museum in Paris...
, Werner SpiesWerner SpiesWerner Spies is a German art historian, journalist and organizer of exhibitions. From 1997 to 2000, he was also a director of the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.-Life and work:...
, Pietro CitatiPietro CitatiPietro Citati is a famous Italian writer and literary critic.He has written critical biographies of Goethe, Alexander the Great, Kafka and Marcel Proust as well as a short but unforgettable memoir on his thirty-year friendship with Italo Calvino.In Kafka, Pietro Citati has the great writer...
, Daniel Marchesseau, Piero Crommelynck, Ann Hindry, Dominique Dupuis-Labbé and Catherine de Bourgoing.
- Pierre LotiPierre LotiPierre Loti was a French novelist and naval officer.-Biography:Loti's education began in his birthplace, Rochefort, Charente-Maritime. At the age of seventeen he entered the naval school in Brest and studied at Le Borda. He gradually rose in his profession, attaining the rank of captain in 1906...
by Jérôme Godeau and Solange Thierry. Contributions by Claude Stéfani, Isabelle Collet, Christine Peltre, Catherine de Bourgoing, Arlette Sérullaz, Sophie Makariou, Olivier Gabet, Daniel Marchesseau and Emmanuelle Devos.
2007
- Théophile BraThéophile BraThéophile François Marcel Bra was a French Romantic sculptor and exact contemporary of Eugène Delacroix. He was deeply involved in the Romantic era through his uncompromising personality and complex spirituality...
by Daniel Marchesseau with contributions by Hubert DamischHubert DamischBorn in 1928, Hubert Damisch is a French philosopher specialised in aesthetics and art history, and professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris from 1975 until 1996....
, Daniel Marchesseau, Jacques de CasoJacques de CasoJacques de Caso is a French-born American historian who specializes in the literature and history of pre-modern art in Europe, principally late eighteenth and nineteenth century French and German neo-classicism and Romanticism.- Education :...
, Pierre-Jacques Lamblin, Françoise Balligand, André Bigotte and Marie-Claude Sabouret.
- Jean-Jacques HennerJean-Jacques HennerJean-Jacques Henner was a French painter, noted for his use of sfumato and chiaroscuro in painting nudes, religious subjects, and portraits....
, contributions by Daniel Marchesseau, Rodolphe Rapetti, Claire Bessède, Emilie Vanhaesebroucke, Isabelle Collet and Isabelle de Lannoy.
2008
- The Golden Age of German Romanticism - Watercolours and Drawings at the time of Goethe, by Hinrich Sieveking. Contributions by Pierre RosenbergPierre RosenbergPierre Max Rosenberg is a French art historian and essayist.Born in Paris, he graduated at the École du Louvre. He joined the Musée du Louvre in 1962 as an assistant, then became curator and later director of the museum. Rosenberg was elected to the Académie française on 7 December...
, Daniel Marchesseau, et al.
- IngresIngresIngres Database is a commercially supported, open-source SQL relational database management system intended to support large commercial and government applications...
, Permanent Shadows - Drawings from Musée IngresMusée IngresThe Musée Ingres is located in Montauban, France. It houses a collection of artworks and artifacts related to Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, and works by another famous native of Montauban, Antoine Bourdelle....
in Montauban, by Catherine Lépront.
2009
- Marc RiboudMarc RiboudMarc Riboud is a French photographer, best known for his extensive reports on the East: The Three Banners of China, Face of North Vietnam, Visions of China, and In China.-Early life and education:...
50 Years of Photography, by Daniel Marchesseau. Contributions by Jean LacoutureJean LacoutureJean Lacouture is a journalist, historian and author. He is particularly famous for his biographies. - Biography :...
, Daniel Marchesseau, André VelterAndré VelterAndré Velter , French poet, was born in Signy-l'Abbaye in the Ardennes région and was educated in Charleville and Paris. Having begun his first journeys in 1955 through Europe and the Middle East, he has traveled through Afghanistan, Tibet, China and India...
and Michel Frizot.
- William BlakeWilliam BlakeWilliam Blake was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age...
by Michael Phillips. Contributions by Yves BonnefoyYves BonnefoyYves Bonnefoy is a French poet and essayist. Bonnefoy was born in Tours, Indre-et-Loire, the son of a railroad worker and a teacher....
, Michael Phillips, Daniel Marchesseau, Martin Butlin, Mark C. Crosby, David Alexander, Angus Whitehead, Elizabeth C. Denlinger, Robin Simon, Jon Stallworthy, Saree Makdisi, Jon Mee, Bethan Stevens, Andrew Lincoln, Jared Richman, Morton D. Paley, Martin Myrone, Andrew Loukes, Troy Patenaude, John Barrell, William L. Pressly, Martin Postle, Anthony Dyson, David Fuller, Suzanne R. Hoover, Céline Mansanti, David Steel and Peter France - An Exhibition organized by Musée de la Vie romantique, presented at Petit Palais / Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris (april-june 2009).
- The Grand TourGrand TourThe Grand Tour was the traditional trip of Europe undertaken by mainly upper-class European young men of means. The custom flourished from about 1660 until the advent of large-scale rail transit in the 1840s, and was associated with a standard itinerary. It served as an educational rite of passage...
by French artists in Italy - Masterpieces from the Petit PalaisPetit PalaisThe Petit Palais is a museum in Paris, France. Built for the Universal Exhibition in 1900 to Charles Girault's designs, it now houses the City of Paris Museum of Fine Arts ....
Collections, 1600-1850. Contributions by Arnaud d'Hauterives, Daniel Marchesseau, Philippe Berthier, Sophie Renouard de Bussierre, Maryline Assante di Panzillo, Paulette Pelletier-Hornby, José de Los Llanos and Charles Villeneuve de Janti.
2010
- Frederic ChopinFrédéric ChopinFrédéric François Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist. He is considered one of the great masters of Romantic music and has been called "the poet of the piano"....
, by Solange Thierry and Jérôme Godeau. Contributions by Solange Thierry, Jérôme Godeau, Jean-Jacques Eigeldinger, Yves Carlier, Martine Kaufmann, Frédérique Thomas-Maurin, Arlette Sérullaz, Pierre Vidal, Olivia Voisin.
- Romantic Russia, Masterpieces from the Tretyakov State Gallery , Moscow, by Daniel Marchesseau. Contributions by Dominique FernandezDominique FernandezDominique Fernandez is an openly homosexual French novelist and member of the Académie française...
, Daniel Marchesseau, Emmanuel Ducamp, Lidia Iovleva, Loudmila Markina, Irina Krasnikova et Anna Antonova.
2011
- French Romantic Gardens, by Catherine de Bourgoing. Contributions by Daniel Marchesseau, Didier Wirth, Claude d'Anthenaise, Monique Mosser, Elisabetta Cereghini, Patricia Taylor, Luigi Gallo, Pascale Heurtel, Bernard Chevallier, Dany Sautot, Jean-Denys Devauges and Isabelle Lévêque.
- Patrick Faigenbaum - Photographies - Paris proche et lointain, by Daniel Marchesseau et Jean-François Chevrier.