La Chalcographie du musée du Louvre : Quatre siècles d’estampes en France The Chalcography of the Louvre Museum brought together a collection of more than 13,500 plates engraved by the greatest French and foreign artists from the 16th century to the present day. It was founded on 12 May 1797, when the French Revolution handed over to the newly created Musée du Louvre the entirety of the copper plates engraved during the Ancien Regime and belonging to the Royal Collections, the collections of the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture, and various other holdings, royal, private or public. Claude Lucas (1685-1765) after Louis Bretez |
Exhibition organized by: Réunion des musées nationaux Musée du Louvre, Department of Prints and Drawings Hexagramm and Cécile Léon Accompany events : - Talk by Pascal Torres Guardiola, Curator of the Edmond de Rothschild Collection and of Chalcographie du Louvre - Demonstrations by François Baudequin, Head of the Atelier de la Chalcographie du Louvre - Class by François Baudequin given to the Department of Engraving at the China Academy of Art catalogue: Preface by Henri Loyrette Texts by Pascal Torres Guardiola, et al. Paris: RMN; Hexagramm, 2005. Bilingual Edition, French-Chinese. 64 p. Press notices China Academy of Art, Hangzhou * 15 – 28/04/2005 Qingdao Municipal Museum * 13/05 – 05/06/2005 National Art Museum of China, Beijing * 29/07 – 19/09/2005 Shanghai Art Museum * 25/09 – 17/10/2005 Tianjin Museum * 24/01 – 05/03/2006 Henan Museum, Zhengzhou 28/04 – 27/05/2006 Shenyang Palace Museum 19/08 – 19/10/2006 Wuhan Museum 23/10 – 23/12/2007 (extended to 15/01/2008) * Presented as part of the Year of France in China with the support of Sanofi-Aventis |
