Discover the exhibition "Jacques Simon, Master of light"

Name: Discover the exhibition "Jacques Simon, Master of light"
Start: 2023-09-16T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Musée-Hôtel Le Vergeur

This exhibition in the Gothic room of the Vergeur Museum-Hotel – Maison Hugues Krafft is a fine tribute to the Simon-Marq dynasty and to Jacques Simon in particular.

16 and 17 September 2023Passed

Conditions

Free admission - Limited to 20 people

Le Champagne. Exportation. Féérie, entre 1931 et1933 Don Benoît et Charlotte Marq, 2021 © Benoît et Charlotte Marq / MBA Reims.2023 Photo Corentin Le Goff

It is a beautiful tribute to the Simon-Marq dynasty, and to Jacques Simon in particular, that this exhibition presented in the Gothic room of the museum-hotel Le Vergeur – Maison Hugues Krafft.
Since 1640, the Simon-Marq dynasty has been part of the Reims heritage. Jacques Simon (1890-1974) was one of its members. His grandchildren, Benoît, master glassmaker himself, and Charlotte Marq donated a significant number of paintings and stained glass windows illustrating the life of the workshop in the 20th century to the Musée des Beaux-Arts in 2020 and 2021.
The work of their grandfather, Jacques Simon, is thus evoked through the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts of Reims and three works lent by the City of stained glass of Troyes. This exhibition gives a taste of the exceptional pieces that will be presented in the renovated Museum of Fine Arts.
To see until October 1, 2023.

About the location

Musée-Hôtel Le Vergeur

36 place du forum, 51100 Reims

Marne
Grand Est

The Museum-hotel bears the name Nicolas Le Vergeur, middle-class person of the XVIth century when they think enriched thanks to the gabelle removed from the attic from salt of Cormicy. Compound(Made up) of two bodies of buildings(ships), one of the XIIIth century and other one of the XVIth centuries, he(it) passed in the hands of different owners among which the Clicquot-Ponsardin family or the Belleau family. He(It) is acquired in 1910 by the Reims sponsor Hugues Krafft (1853-1935), founder of the Company(Society) of the friends du old men Reims who, after the World War I, makes it re-emerge debris then dedicates the ground floor to the museum of Old Reims. Hugues Krafft lèguera in the Company(Society) of the friends du old men Reims its collections, today exposed(explained) in the rooms of three levels of the building(ship), as are it also gifts(donations) made to the advantage of the association since 1935, containing works of antiquity in the XXth century. The Museum-hotel Vergeur was listed(classified) in conformance with(for) Historic monuments in 1916\.