The Meuse(Maas) seen by the painters. Visit free of exhibition(exposure).

Name: The Meuse(Maas) seen by the painters. Visit free of exhibition(exposure).
Start: 2018-09-15T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2018-09-16T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Musée Barrois

Department located in boundaries of the Lorraine, but from now on at the heart of the Big(Great) is, the Meuse(Maas) knew how to attract the artists.

15 and 16 September 2018Passed

Conditions

free

Atelier Corinne François / musée municipal, Saint-Dizier

Department located in boundaries of the Lorraine, but from now on at the heart of the Big(Great) is, the Meuse(Maas) knew how to attract the artists, enticed by its landscapes, its campaign(countryside), its market towns steeped in history and its cities, as well as by its inhabitants. This exhibition(exposure) emphasises these different themes through the works of the XIXth and XXth centuries, mainly, and the look of renowned local artists, such Jules Bastien-Lepage or Alfred Renaudin.
This exhibition(exposure) is accompanied with publication of "The Meuse(Maas) seen by the painters", of Francine Roze, éd. Twill Domini (25 €).

About the location

Musée Barrois

Esplanade du château, 55000 Bar-le-Duc

Meuse
Grand Est

Castle of XVTH - XVITH centuries, sheltering encyclopaedic collections. From the Xth century, the duke of High-of Lorraine Frederick 1st makes build a fortified castle on the mount Bar which dominates Ornain. The site corresponds to the current High City of Bar-le-Duc. In the XIIIth century, the spur is surrounded with a double surrounding wall(speaker). The castle will become then residence of the dukes, prettifying and growing rich in its furniture. It is in the XVIth century, in 1567, that the duke Charles III makes build a new castle in the courtyard: Nine - Mansion. Only surviving building(ship) of the dismantling of fortifications on order of the king Louis XIV in 1670, it is in this castle that will be installed(settled) the collections of the Museum Barrois in 1970, following the Hotel of Florainville which, since 1841, kept(preserved) and exposed(explained) the collections of natural history, painting(paint), sculpture and the archaeological rooms(parts,plays).