La donation Michel Lacoste au musée du Louvre - Orfèvrerie française de Mangot à Puiforcat
Offentliggjort af Musée du Louvre
- From fredag, juni 26 to mandag, januar 11, 2027
- 09.00-18.00
- Musée du Louvre Place du Carrousel, 75001 Paris, Frankrig
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At the Louvre, this exhibition brings together one hundred pieces of goldsmithing donated by collector Michel Lacoste. The display mainly covers the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries and brings the newly acquired pieces of silverware and ceramics into dialogue with the permanent collections. This allows visitors to compare the forms, the uses, and the ways metal is worked from one workshop to another.
The donation particularly enriches the 17th-century collections. It allows us to view side by side the work of Parisian and provincial goldsmiths, and introduces into the museum names that had been absent, such as Jean-Baptiste Chéret or Pierre-François Bonnestrenne. Their presence widens the scope beyond the masters already represented at the Louvre. A chocolatière by François-Thomas Germain, which pairs chiselled silver with ebony, offers an example of the care lavished on an object intended for table service. In the display cases rearranged for the occasion, a color marker distinguishes the donated pieces from those the museum already possessed.
The origin of the collection tells another story of transmission. Michel Lacoste began to take an interest in goldsmithing after receiving from his grandmother a catalog of the Puiforcat collection. A large part of this latter is also at the Louvre. The display thus sets the objects of the new donation in dialogue with those that first drew the collector's attention.
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Musée du Louvre
Place du Carrousel, 75001 Paris, Frankrig