«How to restore a painting?» - meeting with Valérie Trémoulet, restorer

Name: «How to restore a painting?» - meeting with Valérie Trémoulet, restorer
Start: 2022-09-18T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T13:00:00+02:00
Location: Musée des Beaux-arts et d'Archéologie, Muséum d'Histoire naturelle (Musée Saint-Loup)

Works of art are fragile! But how do we restore them and thus allow future generations to admire them?

Sunday 18 September 2022, 10:00Passed

Musées de Troyes

Valérie Trémoulet, professional restorer of paintings, is one of the «protectors» of the heritage. Graduate of an art history degree and after graduate studies in conservation and restoration of painted works at the Art School of Avignon, Valérie Trémoulet is one of the restorers who regularly work on the collections kept by the museums of Troyes.
Present in the gallery of the Museum of Fine Arts, Valérie Trémoulet presents to the public the tools and techniques to protect and sometimes save a painted work.

About the location

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This new route combines nearly 300 works, small paintings and monumental works, known masterpieces and restored and unpublished works from the Middle Ages to the 19th century.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 ...