8/10/24 – Acquisition – Besançon, Museum of Fine Arts and Archeology – For the many visitors who passed through the doors of the Bisontin museum during the Heritage Days weekend, it was certainly a nice surprise: the first space dedicated to the 18th century had just been specially enriched for the occasion, thus welcoming two recent acquisitions but also numerous deposits. While we sometimes hear that institutions should slow down purchases to concentrate on their collections, as if these two missions should not be carried out in parallel, we must be delighted to see the Besançon museum intelligently acquire essential pieces including The arrival – even late – in theaters confirms the interest.
- 1. View of the first room of the 18th century
Photo: Museum of Fine Arts and Archeology of Besançon
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- 2. View of the first room of the 18th century
Photo: Museum of Fine Arts and Archeology of Besançon
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This is how we welcomed a few months ago the pre-emption of a new painting by François Boucher, The merit of any countrytaken to the Drouot hotel in December 2023 (see the brief from 12/1/24) but which needed to be restored [1] before joining the eleven famous sketches for the Chinese Wall Hanging which were at the heart of the exhibition poetically titled “One of the provinces of rococo” (see the article). These paintings are now adjacent (ill. 1 to 3) with a superb group of sculptures dominated, in the center, by a large marble by Jean-Joseph Foucou deposited by the Louvre Museum where we do not remember having had the opportunity to contemplate this Bacchante carrying a child Satyr on her right shoulder of 1777, which struggled to find space in the rooms of the Bisontin museum since it needed a location as central as possible in order to be able to tour it. Let’s agree that this is not the most…
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