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The La Caze Collection
Written on: Thursday, April 26th, 2007 | Filed under:
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The Louvre Museum, Paris, France
French art collector Louis La Caze is best remembered as an eccentric nineteenth-century figure who inspired a novel by Honoré de Balzac. An exhibition currently going up at the Louvre aims to shed new light on the philanthropist, who left the Paris museum a record 584 works upon his death in 1869.
“The Louvre’s collection of paintings would be completely different if we had not received the La Caze collection,” explains Guillaume Faroult, curator of the show.
Among the 60 paintings selected are masterpieces by artists including Jean-Antoine Watteau, Rembrandt and Jean-HonorĂ© Fragonard, alongside lesser-known works from regional museums. Read the rest of this entry »
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