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Blanche Derousse
From September 19th, 2023 to March 10th, 2024
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Branches de marronniers en fleurs, date indéterminée
Collection Musée d'Orsay - Département des Arts Graphiques du musée du Louvre, Paris
Achat, 1960
© RMN-Grand Palais (musée d’Orsay) / Michel Urtado
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Blanche Derousse (1873-1911) was an artist whose brief, little-known career largely focused on the practice of copying. Musée d'Orsay presents the drawings she created based on works by Van Gogh in Doctor Gachet’s collection.
A close friend of Doctor Gachet’s, whose pupil she was, Blanche Derousse (1873-1911) was an artist whose brief, little-known career largely focused on the practice of copying. Between 1900 and 1902, she created a series of copies based on paintings by impressionists and Van Gogh belonging to Paul Gachet, who was a painter and engraver himself. Taking advantage of a favorable artistic environment, she produced smaller-format watercolor versions of works that have since become famous. These copies undoubtedly had to do with a book her teacher was planning to write on Vincent Van Gogh, and also testify to the young woman’s admiration for the artist.
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Portrait du docteur Gachet, 1901
Collection Musée d'Orsay - Département des Arts Graphiques du musée du Louvre, Paris
Achat, 1960
© RMN-Grand Palais (Musée d’Orsay) / Michèle Bellot
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Portrait de Vincent van Gogh, 1902
Collection Musée d'Orsay - Département des Arts Graphiques du musée du Louvre, Paris
Achat, 1960
© RMN-Grand Palais (musée d’Orsay) / Michel Urtado
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Chaumes au soleil, date indéterminée
Collection Musée d'Orsay - Département des Arts Graphiques du musée du Louvre, Paris
Achat, 1960
© RMN-Grand Palais (Musée d’Orsay)
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Les vaches, date indéterminée
Collection Musée d'Orsay - Département des Arts Graphiques du musée du Louvre, Paris
Achat, 1960
© RMN-Grand Palais (musée d’Orsay) / Michel Urtado
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La Seine à Charenton, date indéterminée
Collection Musée d'Orsay - Département des Arts Graphiques du musée du Louvre, Paris
Achat, 1960
© RMN-Grand Palais (Musée d’Orsay)
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Soleil couchant à Ivry, 1873
Musée d'Orsay
Don Paul Gachet, 1951
© Musée d’Orsay, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Patrice Schmidt
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Une moderne Olympia, date indéterminée
Collection Musée d'Orsay - Département des Arts Graphiques du musée du Louvre, Paris
Achat, 1960
© RMN-Grand Palais (musée d’Orsay) / Michel Urtado
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Une moderne Olympia (détail), entre 1873 et 1874
Musée d'Orsay
Don Paul Gachet, 1951
© Musée d’Orsay, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Patrice Schmidt
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Une moderne Olympia, entre 1826 et 1909
Musée d'Orsay
Don Paul Gachet, fils du docteur Gachet, 1958
© RMN-Grand Palais (Musée d’Orsay) / Hervé Lewandowski
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