Linocut initiation workshop

Name: Linocut initiation workshop
Start: 2022-09-17T14:30:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-17T17:30:00+02:00
Location: Musée de l'Hôtel-Dieu

Saturday 17 September 2022, 14:30Passed

Conditions

6 to 8 people at a time

As part of the 39th European Heritage Day dedicated to «Sustainable Heritage», the Hôtel-Dieu Museum of Mantes-la-Jolie is partnering with the artist-engraver Cyrielle André and offers you an initiation workshop to engraving. Alone, with family or friends, come and observe the works of post-impressionist painter Maximilien Luce and tap into your imagination to compose a hybrid and fantastic plant. This will illustrate a postcard made by you thanks to the technique of the linocut. The presence of parents is required for children and adolescents.

About the location

Musée de l'Hôtel-Dieu

1 rue Thiers 78200 Mantes-la-Jolie

Yvelines
Île-de-France

Labelled Musée de France in 2002, the Hôtel-Dieu museum is located near the Notre-Dame collegiate church. Built in the fourteenth century under the reign of Charles V and heavily redesigned in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the building underwent new assignments from the eighteenth century: prison under the Revolution, hospice, orphanage then, successively, theatre, café, cinema and ballroom before being acquired by the City in 1962\. The chapel of the Hotel-Dieu was declared a Historical Monument in 1948 for its 17th century facade and listed as a Historical Monument for the rest of the building in 1964\. The restoration of the building completed, the museum was inaugurated in 1996\. The museum houses a lapidary collection from the Collegiate Church and the church of Sainte-Anne de Gassicourt, as well as works by the post-impressionist painter Maximilien Luce (1851-1941), illustrating the themes of the landscape in the Seine Valley, river tourism, industrial growth and the c