Louvre: réouverture de salles Louis XVI-Marie Antoinette

Site vraiment très informatif, merci.   

Bonjour,

Voici un autre article sur ces salles, avec un interview de Frédéric Dassas, le Conservateur en Chef au Département des Objets d’Art du Musée du Louvre.

http://www.connaissancedesarts.com/archi-jardin-patrimoine/actus/restauration-restitution-et-recreation-au-departement-des-objets-d-art-du-louvre-107186.php

Résumé ici:

http://www.drapeaurouge.fr/2014/06/17/les-salons-des-lumieres-redecouverts-au-public/

Ces salles comme si vous y étiez sur ce blog!   
http://www.bigmammy.fr/archives/2014/06/18/30093920.html

Sur ce site aussi, c'est carrément tout un reportage!   

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Pour ce qui nous intéresse tout particulièrement, voici le cabinet de Marie Antoinette à Saint Cloud recréé dans une de ces pièces du Louvre:





My oh my...   J'ai toujours rêvé de voir les appartements de Marie Antoinette à Saint Cloud... Quand est-ce qu'ils refont le château?   C'est ça ou la machine à remonter le temps!   

... A la réflexion, je préfère la machine... des fois que je verrais passer la reine au détour d'un bosquet...  

Bonjour,

Voici un article pour nos amis qui comprennent l'anglais.

http://www.usnews.com/news/entertainment/articles/2014/06/19/from-the-dust-glittering-louvre-show-emerges



madame antoine

Voici un autre article en anglais.

http://las-vegas.icito.com/tag/marie-antoinette/

madame antoine

C'est la journée des articles en anglais!   J'en ai un aussi!   

http://www.macon.com/2014/06/19/3157157/from-the-dust-glittering-louvre.html




Visitors walk through a room that has been reopened to the public at the Louvre museum in Paris, Tuesday June 17, 2014. Paid for entirely by private patronage, the 9-year works have seen the creaky halls restored, corridors modernized and new rooms constructed to fit over 2,000 design objects that span the reigns of the most lavish kings of Europe. They start with France’s Louis XIV who actually lived in the Louvre, to his successors Louis XV and Louis XVI. REMY DE LA MAUVINIERE — AP Photo




A 18th century chest of drawers made by famous cabinetmaker Martin Carlin is presented in a room that has been reopened to the public at the Louvre museum in Paris, Tuesday June 17, 2014. Paid for entirely by private patronage, the 9-year works have seen the creaky halls restored, corridors modernized and new rooms constructed to fit over 2,000 design objects that span the reigns of the most lavish kings of Europe. They start with France’s Louis XIV who actually lived in the Louvre, to his successors Louis XV and Louis XVI. REMY DE LA MAUVINIERE — AP Photo




A portrait of King Louis XIV hangs in a room that has been reopened to the public at the Louvre museum in Paris, Tuesday June 17, 2014. Paid for entirely by private patronage, the 9-year works have seen the creaky halls restored, corridors modernized and new rooms constructed to fit over 2,000 design objects that span the reigns of the most lavish kings of Europe. They start with France’s Louis XIV who actually lived in the Louvre, to his successors Louis XV and Louis XVI. REMY DE LA MAUVINIERE — AP Photo




Detail of a dish in a room reopened to the public at the Louvre museum in Paris, Tuesday June 17, 2014. Paid for entirely by private patronage, the 9-year works have seen the creaky halls restored, corridors modernized and new rooms constructed to fit over 2,000 design objects that span the reigns of the most lavish kings of Europe. They start with France’s Louis XIV who actually lived in the Louvre, to his successors Louis XV and Louis XVI. REMY DE LA MAUVINIERE — AP Photo




Visitors walk around of the rooms that has been reopened to the public at the Louvre museum in Paris, Tuesday June 17, 2014. Paid for entirely by private patronage, the 9-year works have seen the creaky halls restored, corridors modernized and new rooms constructed to fit over 2,000 design objects that span the reigns of the most lavish kings of Europe. They start with France’s Louis XIV who actually lived in the Louvre, to his successors Louis XV and Louis XVI. REMY DE LA MAUVINIERE — AP Photo




18th century sculpture and tapestry are presented in a room that has been reopened to the public at the Louvre museum in Paris, Tuesday June 17, 2014. Paid for entirely by private patronage, the 9-year works have seen the creaky halls restored, corridors modernized and new rooms constructed to fit over 2,000 design objects that span the reigns of the most lavish kings of Europe. They start with France’s Louis XIV who actually lived in the Louvre, to his successors Louis XV and Louis XVI. REMY DE LA MAUVINIERE — AP Photo




Visitors walk through a room that has been reopened to the public at the Louvre museum in Paris, Tuesday June 17, 2014. Paid for entirely by private patronage, the 9-year works have seen the creaky halls restored, corridors modernized and new rooms constructed to fit over 2,000 design objects that span the reigns of the most lavish kings of Europe. They start with France’s Louis XIV who actually lived in the Louvre, to his successors Louis XV and Louis XVI. REMY DE LA MAUVINIERE — AP Photo




Visitors look around one of the rooms that has been reopened to the public at the Louvre museum in Paris, Tuesday June 17, 2014. Paid for entirely by private patronage, the 9-year works have seen the creaky halls restored, corridors modernized and new rooms constructed to fit over 2,000 design objects that span the reigns of the most lavish kings of Europe. They start with France’s Louis XIV who actually lived in the Louvre, to his successors Louis XV and Louis XVI. REMY DE LA MAUVINIERE — AP Photo




Detail of an XVIIth century piece of furniture in a room that has been reopened to the public at the Louvre museum in Paris, Tuesday June 17, 2014. Paid for entirely by private patronage, the 9-year works have seen the creaky halls restored, corridors modernized and new rooms constructed to fit over 2,000 design objects that span the reigns of the most lavish kings of Europe. They start with France’s Louis XIV who actually lived in the Louvre, to his successors Louis XV and Louis XVI. REMY DE LA MAUVINIERE — AP Photo

Bonjour,

Voici un reportage d'une visite à Paris comprenant ces salles du Louvre. Le reportage est en allemand.



http://gisbert-brunner.gq.de/post/89255132053/breguet-im-dienste-von-kunst-und-kultur

madame antoine

Un autre reportage très complet et bourré de photos:   

http://muchacreative-paris.com/author/admin-2/





The Louvre doesn’t do anything halfway. So when they announced their first ‘period rooms’, you knew it wasn’t IKEA. The spaces they have now premiered (from grandiose to intimate) represent the eras of Louis XIV, Louis XV and Louis XVI.





The renovation comes from the Decorative Arts department – which raised €26 million in private funds to do it. The new galleries, which were nine years in the making, are titled Un art à vivre française (A French art of living). In 23,000 square feet, they showcase French décor from the Sun King to the Revolution. Between their recreated rooms are large and small displays of objects. In these, you can OD on diamond-studded watches – or just stand and gawk at wall after wall of porcelain.





Decorator Jacques Garcia orchestrated les period rooms. Garcia works for the Château of Versailles but he also works in Las Vegas. During a recent interview with the magazine Maison Française, he confessed to being a sort of “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”. Why? “Because I adore bad taste – it can become tomorrow’s good taste!”

Suite de ce magnifique reportage:





The new salles are evidence that these three kings agreed with him. Each was concerned with how surroundings might reflect his glory. But, for them all, bigger and brighter was usually better. Although there’s not a lot in the way of general explanation, one can easily see how taste altered from reign to reign.








For Louis XIV, the Sun King, controlling style was basic to power. He thought of his décor as the adjunct to his majesty. Louis’ every act – getting up, getting dressed or sitting down to his meal – was a public spectacle. Never alone, he made sure magnificence was a constant backdrop.

He favoured impressive statues, furniture encrusted with gold and giant tapestries depicting classical scenes. Via their deep reds, navy blues and forest green, his very walls reflected strength and royalty.








Louis XV, however, personalised the role of monarch. He was a décor enthusiast who wanted a private life. Behind Versailles’ grand salles of state, Louis created “secret” rooms. (They included a wood shop, a kitchen where he learned to make pastry and a cabinet for scientific experiments). He continued to be dressed, undressed and put to bed in public. But the king would then sneak off and sleep on his own – in private.

C'est génial! De quoi consoler ceux qui, comme moi, sont si loin de Paris...


There was even an early 18th century fad for all-white walls – and the Louvre has installed a rare example.

• There were three court hairdressers known as “Léonard”. Léonard-Alexis Autié was Marie-Antoinette’s favourite. (He was behind the notorious towering coiffures known as poufs). His younger brother Jean-François was Versailles’ “everyday” coiffeur, while their cousin looked after the King’s sister, Madame Elizabeth.

•  Joan De Jean’s The Age of Comfort: When Paris Discovered Casual–and the Modern Home Began is an entertaining read that covers a bit of this ground. The best book on Marie-Antoinette remains Marie Antoinette: The Journey.





* Literally, cuisse de nymphe émue means “thigh of an emotional nymph”

** “Nothing was changed in Marie-Antoinette’s room…the dress which Her Majesty had worn on the evening…the fichu beneath which her heart had violently beaten on the approach of the Parisian bands, the half-turned silk stockings which she had taken off… Only the gilt panels of the door were broken and fallen in splinters on the floor. The palace itself is now an immense deserted space: empty guard houses, sentry boxes without sentries, gates open to all comers and, beyond that, the silent imposing group of galleries and pavilions, that Colossus of stone which Louis XIV, the magnificent, erected at such great expense…” Recollections of Léonard, Hairdresser to the Queen, London, Greening & Co, 1912

*** To see les period rooms at dusk, go on a Wednesday or Friday, when the Louvre stays open until 9:45 p.m.




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Magnifique reportage... J'en reste sans voix...   

Bonjour,

Voici article consacré au mécénat exceptionnel de Bréguet.

http://fr.worldtempus.com/article/culture/breguet-grand-mecene-du-louvre-1726676

madame antoine

Bonjour,

Encore des informations et des photos sur cet événement exceptionnel.

http://www.artactu.com/musee-du-louvre-decors-mobilier-et-objets-d-art-de-louis-xiv-a-marie-antoinette-article003754.html



Cabinet de l’hôtel de Villemaré-Dangé, vers 1750. Musée du Louvre, département des Objets d’art © 2014 Musée du Louvre, dist. RMN-GP / Olivier Ouadah



Chocolatière de la reine Marie Leczinska. Paris, 1729-1730. Henri-Nicolas Cousinet © RMN-GP (musée du Louvre) / Jean-Gilles Berizzi

madame antoine

P'tite photo du secrétaire de notre reine...   



http://www.iwatchome.net/News_title.php?article_id=NS1400081

Un article particulièrement intéressant pour nous:


LOUVRE

DES PIÈCES VRAIMENT MAÎTRESSES


Le Louvre a ouvert les salles consacrées aux objets français du XVIIIe siècle. Un art raffiné qui doit tout au bon goût des favorites de la Cour.



Le cabinet turc du comte d'Artois, frère de Louis XVI, 1775-1785.
© Hubert Fanthomme


Un moulin à café a fait le déplacement depuis l’hôtel d’Evreux, résidence parisienne de Mme de Pompadour et actuel palais de l’Elysée, jusqu’au Louvre. Composé d’or de trois couleurs et d’un manche en ivoire, il servait à la marquise, maîtresse de Louis XV. Un peu plus loin, derrière une vitrine, un coffret d’acajou est ouvert. Quatre-vingt-quatorze objets y sont rangés. Un service à thé en porcelaine, des flacons en cristal, une chocolatière en argent... Marie-Antoinette les utilisait lors de ses déplacements, au début de la tourmente révolutionnaire notamment. Ailleurs, le secrétaire en pente du cabinet de retraite de la reine Marie Leszczynska au château de Marly ou une commode en chêne, marbre et bronze de la chambre de Mme Du Barry.

Dans de nouvelles salles sont présentés 2 500 chefs- d’œuvre d’une époque où Paris émerveillait l’Europe et dont les commanditaires étaient souvent des femmes. Derrière chaque grand roi se cache une favorite… Jeune fille soudainement propulsée au sommet de la cour ou intrigante politique chevronnée, elles ont l’oreille du monarque, un accès étendu à sa cassette personnelle et un goût inégalé pour le luxe. « Un Etat puissant crée une puissance culturelle et elles ont dirigé avec précision l’idée de pouvoir qu’avait leur mari ou amant souverain en les amenant à leur meilleur. La France domine alors le monde et ces maîtresses jouent un rôle fondamental », explique Jacques Garcia, muséographe des lieux. « Avec Mme Du Barry, par exemple, il y a toujours quelque chose d’extrêmement féminin, une volupté de l’ornementation », définit Jannic Durand, directeur du département des objets d’art. Marie-Antoinette exprime au contraire dans les commandes qu’elle passe à ses orfèvres et ébénistes « un raffinement, une délicatesse, toujours très riche mais mesuré. Elle ne veut pas en imposer ». Pour donner au public les clefs de ce parcours chronologique foisonnant, il a fallu remettre les objets en situation dans des « period rooms ». Ce terme anglo-saxon, qui ne connaît pas d’équivalence en français, désigne une pièce qui rassemble des œuvres et des boiseries de la même époque.

"TOUT CORRESPOND À UNE RÉALITÉ HISTORIQUE"

« Il n’y a pas d’initiative personnelle, prévient Jacques Garcia. Tout correspond à une réalité historique. » Ainsi les lambris d’un cabinet de l’hôtel Dangé, conservés dans les collections du musée, retrouvent leur bleu ciel détonnant rehaussé d’un décor sculpté et sont agrémentés de rideaux, sièges, lustre, cheminée. De même pour les arabesques du grand salon du château de Voré en Eure-et-Loir, propriété du fils du médecin de Louis XIV, rare témoin de la décoration intérieure à la mode vers 1720. Pour Garcia, « il s’agit d’évoquer ce goût et ce caractère terriblement français et révolutionnaire qui fait que tous les dix ans on arrache tout et on refait ». Au Louvre, cela ne fait que commencer.
http://www.parismatch.com/Culture/Art/Des-pieces-vraiment-maitresses-571883

Voici encore un article particulièrement bien illustré:
http://www.latribunedelart.com/la-reouverture-des-salles-d-objets-d-art-du-louvre-de-louis-xiv-a-louis-xvi

Un nouvel article:
http://www.bilan.ch/etienne-dumont/courants-dart/musee-louvre-se-met-lheure-de-versailles

Bonjour,

Vous trouverez d'autres belles photos sur cette page.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/yjeanmundelsalle/2014/08/18/the-louvre-museum-reopens-its-18th-century-decorative-arts-galleries-with-the-support-of-breguet-watches/2/



A cupola fresco depicting mythological subjects from The Toilet of Venus painted in 1774 by Antoine-François Callet and Pierre-Hyacinthe Deleuze for Louis Joseph de Bourbon, Prince de Condé (Photo © 2014 Musée du Louvre, dist. RMN-GP / Thierry Ollivier)

madame antoine

Sortie d'un DVD:

Dvd De Louis XIV à Marie-Antoinette, un art de vivre à la française - 19,95 €
http://www.boutiquesdemusees.fr/fr/dvd/dvd-de-louis-xiv-marie-antoinette-un-art-de-vivre-la-francaise/7513.html

Voici une photo de la Salle Marie-Antoinette, contenant du mobilier d'art issu des Résidences Royales.


http://www.noblesseetroyautes.com/salle-marie-antoinette-louvre/

madame antoine