Gift in memory of Bruno Foucart (1938-2018)
La Vierge à l'Enfant, entre 1900 et 1905
Musée d'Orsay
Don de Jacques et Elisabeth Foucart en mémoire de Bruno Foucart, par l’intermédiaire de la Société des amis du musée d’Orsay et de l’Orangerie, 2021
© Musée d’Orsay, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Patrice Schmidt
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As a university professor, exhibition curator and regular contributor to several publications, Bruno Foucart was a major figure in the world of art history. He tirelessly championed the rediscovery and reappraisal of academic art and was a key figure in the campaign to protect 19th century and early 20th century architectural heritage, both religious and industrial. He played a decisive role in the protection of the Gare d’Orsay (1973), and the subsequent creation of the museum (1977).
His taste for artists overlooked by the history of modernity and by institutions – the “lost artists of history” as he called them – led him to begin building a fine and eclectic amateur collection in the 1960s. Seven works joined the collections of the Musée d'Orsay through the Société des amis des musées d'Orsay et de l'Orangerie. Several other gifts have been made in his memory to the Musée du Petit Palais in Paris and the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Rennes.
La Vierge à l'Enfant, entre 1900 et 1905
Musée d'Orsay
Don de Jacques et Elisabeth Foucart en mémoire de Bruno Foucart, par l’intermédiaire de la Société des amis du musée d’Orsay et de l’Orangerie, 2021
© Musée d’Orsay, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Patrice Schmidt
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On display room 8b, level 0
The exhibition is now over.
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