Exhibition at the museum

Félicie de Fauveau. The Amazon Sculptress

From June 13th to September 15th, 2013 -

Musée d'Orsay

Esplanade Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
75007 Paris

Félicie de Fauveau-La Lampe dite de Saint Michel — Félicie de Fauveau
*La Lampe dite de Saint Michel*, 1832
© DR/Cliché musée d'Orsay, Patrice Schmidt / DR

Félicie de Fauveau (1801-1886) was a figure as emblematic as she was unique. Nostalgic for an era that she had not lived through, a royalist, a catholic, a single woman and a feminist, this sculptress committed her life and her art to defending a political utopia, expressed principally through images of History.
After supporting the Duchesse de Berry and organising uprisings in the Vendée with the Countess de La Rochejaquelein, she agreed to go into exile, and settled in Florence. Taking her inspiration from the symbolism of heraldry, she produced a Catholic iconography, militant and glorified, with Neo-Gothic and Neo- Renaissance inspired forms. Her sculptures have been dispersed mainly outside France and are rarely seen. The exhibition, organised by the Historial de Vendée and the Musée d’Orsay, will be the very first retrospective devoted to her work.

Curatorship

Ophélie Ferlier, sculpture curator, Musée d'Orsay
Christophe Vital, chief heritage curator, regional curator for the Musées de Vendée
Jacques de Caso, Professor Emeritus, University of California at Berkeley
Sylvain Bellenger, Searle Chair and Curator, Medieval to Modern European Painting and Sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago
Organised by the Musée d'Orsay and the Historial de Vendée, the exhibition will also be shown at the Historial de Vendée, Les Lucs-sur-Boulogne, from 15 February to 19 March 2013

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