Exhibition of the Cabinet des Arts graphiques «Alexandre Clausel, portraits d'arbres»

Name: Exposition du Cabinet des Arts graphiques « Alexandre Clausel, portraits d’arbres »
Start: 2023-09-16T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Musée des Beaux-arts et d'Archéologie, Muséum d'Histoire naturelle (Musée Saint-Loup)

European Heritage Days 2023

16 et 17 septembre 2023Passé

Musées de Troyes / Christelle Prunier

Alexandre Clausel, an artist active in Troyes between 1852 and 1857, was one of the pioneers of photography.
He was probably trained in this technique by the master of the time, Gustave Le Gray (1820-1884), and he showed great technical and aesthetic mastery.
Clausel, based in Troyes, is interested in the urban transformations that are taking place before his eyes with the modernization of the city.
Among the 500 or so views of architecture and urban landscapes preserved at the Museum of Fine Arts and Archaeology in Troyes, there is a collection of «tree portraits», real pieces of nature, in the spirit of Barbizon painters and landscape painting that develops from the romantic era.
These works constitute small technical feats: the prints on salty or albumin paper, as well as the negatives on glass plates, very rarely shown to the public, combine both daydreaming and modernity.
Until October 24, 2023

À propos du lieu

Musée des Beaux-arts et d'Archéologie, Muséum d'Histoire naturelle (Musée Saint-Loup)

61 rue de la Cité, 10000 Troyes

Aube
Grand Est

The old(former) abbey, built in the XVIIth and XVIIIth century s., shelters the museum of Fine Arts, of regional archaeology and the Museum. Regional Archaeology: first palaeolithic populatings till the beginning of Middle Ages, of Stone Age (dolmen of Frécul) via(including) the age of metals (remarkable Celtic time(period): falls to tank of Bouranton, golden(in gold) bracelet of Molesmes), then the roman time (Apollo de Vaupoisson, domus of Chaillouet) up to High Middle Ages (treasure of Pouan). Natural sciences: an unique(only) Museum in Champagne-Ardenne. Focus on local fauna(crowd): mammals (otter, lynx, wildcat) and visible birds around the natural lakes of the forest of East (ash crane, black stork) as well as sorts(species) from the whole world: a diversity of fauna(crowd).

This new route combines nearly 300 works, small paintings and monumental works, known masterpieces and restored and unpublished works from the Middle Ages to the 19th century. This presentation renews the look at this exceptional collection of French and European painting, from knowledgeable collectors, highlighting artistic exchanges between France, Italy, the Netherlands, Germany, England ... with Giotto, Malouel, Spranger, Vasari, Rubens, Jordaens, van Dyck, Champaigne, Bellotto, Mignard, Le Brun, Watteau, Natoire, Boucher, Fragonard, Hubert Robert, Greuze, Vien, David, Corot ...