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December 1, 2017
Schedule of Events for 2018
Temporary Exhibitions (subject to modification)
Musée du Louvre Press contacts
External Relations Department Christine Cuny - christine.cuny@louvre.fr /+33 (0)1 40 20 51 42
Anne-Laure Béatrix, Director Céline Dauvergne - celine.dauvergne@louvre.fr /+33 (0)1 40 20 84 66
Adel Ziane, Head of Communications Subdepartment Coralie James - coralie.james@louvre.fr / +33 (0)1 40 20 54 44
Sophie Grange, Head of Press Division Marion Benaiteau - marion.benaiteau@louvre.fr /+ 33 (0)1 40 20 67 10
Bruno Cappelle - bruno.cappelle@louvrelens.fr / +33 (0)3 21 18 62 13
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At the Musée du Louvre
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DELACROIX (1798-1863)
Mars, 29-July 23, 2018
Hall Napoléon
Curators: Sébastien Allard and Côme Fabre, Department of Paintings
In partnership with the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, in spring
2018, the Musée du Louvre will be hosting an exhibition dedicated to the
artistic career of Eugène Delacroix. For the first time since the 1963 exhibition
celebrating the 100-year anniversary of his death, this event will pool over 180
artworks by the artist, including a large number of paintings: from the young
artist’s big hits at the Salon of 1820 up to his final less known and mysterious
religious and landscape compositions.
The exhibition will showcase the tensions that formed this artist, striving for
individuality while driven by aspirations to follow in the footsteps of 16th
and 17th-century Flemish and Venetian artists. The installations and Eugène Delacroix, L i b e r t y L e a d i n g t h e
information provided will provide insight into his long, rife, and diverse P e o p l e , Musée du Louvre, Department of
Paintings © musée du Louvre, dist. RMN /
career. Angèle Dequier
Visitors will have the chance to familiarize themselves with this engaging
character: infatuated by fame and devoted to his work; curious, critical, and
cultivated; and a virtuoso writer, painter, and illustrator.
FRANCE VIEWED FROM THE GRAND SIÈCLE
DRAWINGS BY ISRAËL SILVESTRE (1621-1691)
March 15-June 25, 2018
Rotonde Sully (North)
Curators: Bénédicte Gady, muse des Arts décoratifs and Juliette Trey,
musée du Louvre
After training as an engraver under Jacques Callot, Israël Silvestre very
quickly turned to the cityscape. Small and picturesque, his early “views”
were of his native Nancy and the cities he passed through on the several
journeys he made between Paris and Rome.
By contrast, his mature works offer broad panoramas of the French
capital, with its royal festivities and the changes it was undergoing, and
outlines of the cities conquered by Louis XIV in Lorraine and the
Ardennes. In addition, his series devoted to the handsome Ile-de-France Israël Silvestre, View of Verdun, 1 6 6 5 , Musée du
châteaux—Vaux-le-Vicomte, Meudon, Montmorency, Versailles—brought Louvre, Department o f Prints and Drawings
© musée du Louvre / Laurent Chastel
a fresh eye to architecture and gardens.
While Silvestre's engravings circulated widely, his drawings remain
relatively unknown. The Musée du Louvre is home to a remarkable
collection of them, to be shown to the public for the first time.
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A DREAM OF ITALY : THE MARQUIS CAMPANA'S
COLLECTION
November 8, 2018–February 11, 2019
Hall Napoléon
Curators: Françoise Gaultier, Department of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman
Antiquities, and Anna Trofimova, Hermitage Museum.
The Musée du Louvre and the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg are
joining forces for an outstanding exhibition based on the collection built up
by Marquis Campana between 1830 and 1850. The Sarcophagus of the Spouses, Musée du Louvre,
For the first time in 160 years, the exhibition will provide a comprehensive Department of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman An-
overview of the 19th century's largest private collection, whose 10,000 tiquities © Musée du Louvre, dist. RMN - Grand
Palais / Philippe Fuzeau
exhibits—archeological items, paintings, sculptures and “modern” objets
d'art—included such masterpieces as the Sarcophagus of the Spouses and
Paolo Uccello's Battle of San Romano.
Addressing the personality and tastes of Giampietro Campana, the way he
brought together this truly extraordinary ensemble, and its ultimate dispersal
throughout Europe, the exhibition will also highlight the collection's seminal
role in the affirmation of Italian culture as the Italian nation gradually took
shape in the course of the 19th century. Thus it will illustrate the collection's
significance in terms of cultural awareness in Italy and Europe as a whole.
PASTELS AT THE LOUVRE: THE 17th AND 18th CENTURIES
June, 7–September 10, 2018
Rotonde Sully (South)
Curator: Xavier Salmon, Department of Prints and Drawings.
The Musée du Louvre has the good fortune to possess a benchmark
collection of French and European pastels, notably including remarkable
groups of works by Jean-Etienne Liotard, Maurice Quentin de La Tour,
and Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin, as well as important pieces by
Jean-Marc Nattier, François Boucher, and Elisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun,
to name only a few.
Extremely fragile—they are created from a colored dust often likened to that
found on the wings of butterflies—pastels are a gauge of the skill of artists
who have executed them not as preliminary studies with pastel highlighting,
but as works in their own right painted on supports allowing for their
framing.
The exhibition will comprise over 120 examples from the Louvre collection.
Most of them date from the 18th century—the medium's golden age—and Maurice Quentin de La Tour, Portrait of the Marquise
have been protected and restored thanks to the patronage of the American de Pompadour, Musée du Louvre, Department of
Prints and Drawings © Musée du Louvre, dist.
Friends of the Louvre. RMN - Grand Palais / Martine Beck- Coppola
The catalogue raisonné of the Louvre pastel collection that accompanies the
exhibition is the fruit of several years' research by Xavier Salmon.
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JAPONISMS 2018
July 12, 2018–January 14, 2019
Belvedere under the Pyramid
Artist: Kohei Nawa
2018 will mark both the 160th anniversary of diplomatic relations between
Japan and France and the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the Meiji
era, when Japan opened up to the West.
As part of the "Japonisms 2018: Souls in Accord" season, the Louvre is
presenting Throne, a monumental work by Kohei Nawa, under the Pyramid.
ARCHEOLOGY GOES GRAPHIC
September 2018–July 2019
The Petite Galerie du Louvre
Organized by: Jean-Luc Martinez, President-Director and Fabrice Douar,
Interpretation and Cultural Programming Department
The Petite Galerie du Louvre's 4th season ties in with the museum's
program for 2018/2019, namely the exhibitions devoted to the Marquis
Campana collection and the Tell Halaf archeological site.
As the season's guest, the graphic novel demonstrates how, in a blend of fact
and fiction, the 9th art has appropriated the archeological discoveries that
have contributed to the Louvre's collection.
COLOR ENGRAVING IN EUROPE IN THE 16th AND 17th
CENTURIES
October 2018–January 2019
Rotonde Sully (South)
Curator: Séverine Lepape, Department of Prints and Drawings
In a pioneering miscellany of examples from French collections (Musée du
Louvre, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Fondation Custodia, École
Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Besançon)
and institutions abroad (British Museum, Ashmolean Museum,
Rijksmuseum), this exhibition will offer a chronological and geographic
panorama of color engraving via the most significant works of the leading
masters of the Renaissance and European Mannerism.
Its sources include recent research into color engraving pigments and
watermarks jointly carried out by the Bibliothèque Nationale de France and
the Centre for Research and Restoration of the Museums of France
(C2RMF).
Color wood engraving, known as chiaroscuro in Italy, was first practiced in
Europe from the early 1500s to around 1650. It was the outcome of technical
and artistic attempts to impart subtle nuances of color in printed form. Both
an imitation of other art media—drawing first and foremost—and a medium
in its own right, it circulated widely and attracted real interest from certain
painters, who saw it as a new means for formulating their explorations of
light, shade, line, and chromatic values.
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POWER PLAYS
Until July 2, 2018
The Petite Galerie du Louvre
Curators: Paul Mironneau, Director of the Musée National et Domaine du
Château de Pau; Jean-Luc Martinez, President-Director of the Musée du
Louvre
The Petite Galerie exhibition for 2017–2018 focuses on the connection
between art and political power. Governing entails self-presentation as a way
of affirming authority, legitimacy, and prestige. Thus art in the hands of
patrons becomes a propaganda tool; but it can also be a vehicle for protest and
subverting the established order.
Spanning the period from antiquity up to our own time, forty works from
the Musée du Louvre, the Musée National du Château de Pau, the Château
de Versailles and the Musée des Beaux-arts de la Ville de Paris illustrate the
evolution of the codes behind the representation of political power.
By providing keys to the observation and explanation of different artworks,
the Petite Galerie sets out to make the visit to the museum an enjoyable and Antoine-François Callet, Louis XVI, 1779, oil on
enlightening experience. Informative labels and digital touchscreen displays canvas, Musée du Château de Versailles © RMN-
Grand Palais (Château de Versailles) / Chris-
encourage attention to detail and help to establish context. In addition, five
tophe Fouin
themed tours of the Louvre’s permanent collection are proposed.
Off-site
THE LOUVRE IN TEHERAN
March 5–June 3, 2018
National Museum of Iran in Teheran
Curators: Yannick Lintz, Department of Islamic Art, and Marielle Pic,
Department of Near Eastern Antiquities
THE ART OF THE PORTRAIT IN THE LOUVRE’S
COLLECTION
May–September 2018
National Art Center, Tokyo
September 2018–January 2019
Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts
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At the Musée Eugène-Delacroix
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EXHIBITION
REAL AND IMAGINARY DEPICTIONS OF THE ORIENT:
A MATTER OF GAZES
January 11–April 2, 2018
Curators: Françoise Vergès, Dominique de Font-Réaulx and Lilian Thuram
The Lilian Thuram Foundation: Education against Racism and the Musée
National Eugène-Delacroix have teamed on an enlightening and atypical
exhibition that revitalizes the presentation of works in the museum. Henri Fantin-Latour, Women of Algiers (after Dela-
Designed here is an unprecedented display of the museum collection croix), Musée National Eugène-Delacroix © RMN-
dedicated to the “Orient,” as understood by Delacroix, and its depiction. Grand Palais (musée du Louvre) / Harry Bréjat
This exhibition highlights the close links existing between artistic
representations and our contemporary history, between artworks and the
issues at stake in our world.
An original visit to the Musée Delacroix has thus been planned, encoura-
ging discussions and debates, as well as promising aesthetic surprises and
new discoveries. Meetings and lectures open to the general public are some of
the related events planned around the exhibition and will offer the public a
great chance to discuss and look at the works with fresh eyes as well as acti-
vely participate.
GRAPPLING WITH THE MODERN: FROM DELACROIX TO
THE PRESENT DAY
April 11–July 23, 2018
Curators: Dominique de Font-Réaulx, Musée National Eugène-Delacroix
and Marie Monfort, DRAC Ile de France
To mark the 220th anniversary of the birth of Eugène Delacroix, in the
spring of 2018 the Musée Delacroix will be devoting an exhibition to the
artist's three paintings in the recently restored church of St Sulpice in Paris,
and in particular Jacob Wrestling with the Angel. Eugène Delacroix, Study for Heliodorus Driven
Monumental, complex and sublime, this decorative project commissioned in from the Temple, 19th century, pen and brown ink
drawing, Musée National Eugène-Delacroix ©
1849 kept Delacroix busy until 1861 and can be deemed his spiritual testa- RMN - Grand Palais (musée du Louvre) / Adrien
ment. The closeness of the ties between the Musée Delacroix and these mas- Didierjean
terful works is underscored by the fact that he set up his last studio on Rue
de Fürstenberg in order to complete them.
The restoration of the paintings in the Chapel of the Holy Angels and the
studies relating to their conservation also allow for a fresh analytical ap-
proach.
This exhibition will provide an opportunity to consider Delacroix's oeuvre in
relation to the work of the many 19th- and 20th-century artists he influ-
enced, from Gauguin to Epstein, and from Redon to Chagall.
6At the Louvre-Lens
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THE ROSE GARDEN
MASTERPIECES OF PERSIAN ART FROM THE 19th
CENTURY
March 21–July 16, 2018
Temporary exhibition gallery
The Louvre-Lens is presenting the world's first retrospective devoted to the
sumptuous art of the dazzling Qajar dynasty, which ruled Iran from 1786
to 1925. This is one of the most fascinating periods in the history of a
country very much a member of the nations of the world, highly receptive
to innovation, and bent on preserving its identity while embracing
modernism.
Strikingly original, the art of this era—stimulated by virtuoso artists
at court—was especially rich and abundant, as the exhibition demonstrates:
over 400 works from numerous private collections and leading institutions
in Europe, North America, and the Middle East. Most of the exhibits,
moreover, are world exclusives. This comprehensive overview of Qajar art
comprises paintings, drawings, jewelry, enamelware, carpets, garments,
photographs and ceremonial coats of arms, all in a colorful, immersive
scenography by Christian Lacroix.
Attributed to Mihr Ali, Portrait of Fath Ali Shah
(1797–1834), about 1805, oil on canvas, Paris, Musée
du Louvre © RMN-GP (musée du Louvre) /
Hervé Lewandowski
ITALIAN PAINTINGS FROM NORTHERN FRANCE
DIALOGUES AND CONNECTIONS
Until May 28, 2018
Glass Pavillon
The Louvre-Lens Glass Pavilion serves as a showcase for the vibrant
museum culture of the Hauts-de-France region with the presentation of
themed exhibitions drawing exclusively from local art collections.
Featuring a unique display that brings the Italian artworks of Picardy and
the Nord-Pas-de-Calais face to face, the museum promises an ideal close to
the “Heures italiennes” series held throughout 2017 in the
Hauts-de-France region.
Fostering dialogue around four themes, the exhibition makes connections
between some twenty paintings by Italian masters of the 16th, 17th, and
18th centuries.
It proposes a fascinating counterpoint to the Italian masterpieces on display
in the Galerie du Temps (Botticelli, Perugino, Raphael, Tintoretto, etc.)
that precedes the Glass Pavilion. Francesco Salviati (workshop of), Charity 16th centu-
ry, oil on panel © MP Barrat / Musée Jeanne
d'Aboville
Louvre - Lens
Press contact
Bruno Cappelle
bruno.cappelle@louvrelens.fr
+33 (0)3 21 18 62 13
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