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PRESS RELEASE
MUSÉE CANTONAL DES BEAUX-ARTS DE LAUSANNE
Lausanne, June 2013
We are pleased to invite you to the press conference of the exhibition
Senses and Sensibilities.
The 18th Century in the Museum’s Collections
28 June - 22 September 2013
on Thursday 27 June 2013 at 11 am
GENERAL
INFORMATION
Opening reception
Curator
Media contact
Thursday 27 June 2013 at 6.30 pm
Catherine Lepdor, Museum’s chief curator
Loïse Cuendet, [email protected]
Direct phone number: +41 (0)21 316 34 48
To download press material: www.mcba.ch > press relations
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Address
Opening hours
Heritage Day
The Museum Night
Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne
Palais de Rumine, place de la Riponne 6
CH-1014 Lausanne
Tel.: +41 (0)21 316 34 45
Fax.: +41 (0)21 316 34 46
[email protected]
www.mcba.ch
Tuesday to Thursday: 11 am – 6 pm
Friday to Sunday: 11 am – 5 pm
Closed on Monday (16 September 2013, Jeûne Fédéral, as well)
1 August 2013: 11 am – 5 pm
Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 September 2013
Free
Saturday 21 September 2013
2 pm – 2 am
Further information : www.lanuitdesmusees.ch
Admission
Adults : CHF 8.–
Pensioners, students, apprentices : CHF 6.–
Under 16 : free
1st Saturday of the month : free
Directions
Metro M2: station Riponne – Maurice Béjart
Bus 1/2: stop at Rue Neuve
Bus 8: stop at Riponne
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Senses and Sensibilities
The 18th Century in the Museum’s Collections
28 June - 22 September 2013
Enlightenment
and darkness
The years that separate the death of Louis XIV in 1715 and the downfall of Charles
X in 1830 were crucial for France, a sounding board for Europe in the tense period
leading up to the Revolution in 1789, then digesting that major event.
It was the profile of our modern age that was being shaped in a society eager to
overturn the established power structure and replace it with democracy, to advance
the cause of knowledge, and probe the mysteries of the human soul. Everywhere
we see men and women at work conceiving and setting up great utopias that still
determine our horizons today.
Further
developments
Survivals
Exceptional
loans
Reason and Sentiment moves rapidly through this turbulent period. Artists, keeping
a balance between head and heart, participated in that search for a new world, and
in exploring and taming it. Classicism, Rococo, Neoclassicism and Romanticism
followed one another at breakneck speed, conveying the aspirations of a curious,
inventive society. The itinerary carries visitors along in that tempestuous current,
taking them to the four corners of Europe: the pomp of the Louis XIV period
portrait, nature sublimated or observed through a microscope, analysis of the
human soul, the invention of a new style of history painting, the triumph of genre
painting, courtly pastoral scenes, the depiction of the way of life of the common
people, and observation of architecture and antique sculpture, as well as of the
great masters of the Renaissance.
From room to room, a few modern and contemporary works placed alongside the
older collection show that the spirit of the 18th century is still alive today.
The exhibition draws mainly on the Museum’s own collections. It also benefits
from loans from private collections, as well as from public ones including the Neue
Pinakothek in Munich, the Marylebone Cricket Club Museum in London, the National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh, the Musée Calvet in Avignon, the Kunstmuseum in Bern, and the following museums in Lausanne: the Musée historique, the
Fondation de l’Hermitage, the Musée de l’Elysée, the Musée et Jardins botaniques
cantonaux, and the Musée cantonal de géologie.
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The itinerary
through
ten rooms
PUBLICATION
1.
Pomp of the Louis XIV period portrait
Hyacinthe Rigaud, Nicolas de Largillierre, Jean-Baptiste Oudry
2.
Nature observed by the traveller, Nature observed by the botanist
Landscapes by Louis Ducros, Plates from Rosalie de Constant’s Herbarium
3.
Sensitive portraits
Jean-Etienne Liotard, Johann Fr. A. Tischbein, Benjamin Bolomey
4.
New history painting
Jacques Sablet, François Sablet, Jean-Pierre Saint-Ours
5.
Conversation pieces, elegiac portraits
Jacques Sablet, François Sablet
6.
Genre scenes, costume painting
Hubert Robert, Francesco Guardi, Jacques Sablet, Léopold Robert
7.
After Antiquity, after the Renaissance
Interpretive engravings
8.
Switzerland – Russia. Birth of the Vaud’s museum collections
François baron Gérard, Jacques Pajou, Charles-Louis Corbet
9.
Storms, Passions, Madness
Johann Heinrich Füssli, Joseph Reinhart, Louis Piot
10.
Miniature portraits
Louis Comte, Johann-Jakob Müller
To coincide with the exhibition we are publishing
De la Renaissance au Romantisme.
Peintures françaises et anglaises du Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne
Edited by Frédéric Elsig, 128 p., CHF 25.- (French).
Lausanne, Les cahiers du Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, 2013
With contributions by
Angela Benza
Vincent Chenal
Geneviève Dutoit
Frédéric Elsig
Claudia Gaggetta
Martine Hart
Frédéric Hueber
Imola Kiss
Marco Jalla
Victor Lopes
Sarah Petrella
Bérangère Poulain
Jessica Stevens
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EVENTS
THURSDAYS
AT THE MUSEUM
at 12.30 pm
The three François. Freeze frames :
By Catherine Lepdor, head curator
11 July 2013
François Dubois, Le Massacre de la Saint-Barthélemy, c. 1572-1584
25 July 2013
François Sablet, Offrande à Hymen, 1783
29 August 2013
François, baron Gérard, Portrait de l’empereur Alexandre Ier, 1814-1816
Guided tours
by Sandrine Moeschler, museum educator
8 August 2013
5 September 2013
19 September 2013
Guided tour for the Friends of the Museum
by Catherine Lepdor
12 September 2013
WORKSHOPS
FOR YOUNGSTERS
Holiday passport
Friday 12 July and Friday 16 August, 10 am – 3.30 pm
(book online at: www.apvrl.ch)
Sketchbook: a walk in the city and the Museum
Wednesday 10 July and Tuesday 13 August 2013, 10 am – 3.30 pm
CHF 10.- (book by phone : 021 316 34 45)
EXTRAMURAL VISIT
AUDIO-GUIDE
DISCOVERY
BOOKLET
SCHOOLS
PRIVATE
GUIDED TOURS
Discover the main drawing-room of the Château de Beaulieu
and its paintings in the manner of Watteau
Visit led by Béatrice Lovis, art historian (book by phone: 021 316 34 45)
Wednesday 11 September at 3 pm
In French and English, free
Activities in the exhibition, from 7 years, free
Guided visits for schools
Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from 9 am
Places must be booked 10 days in advance
Free
Available for groups of up to 30 people, upon request
CHF 120.- + admission charges
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PRESS IMAGES
Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts’ collections
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Nicolas de Largillierre, Autoportrait, 1711, oil on canvas, 80 x 63 cm.
Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne. Arlaud
donation, 1841. Photo: Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Nora Rupp
Angelica Kauffmann, Calypso pleurant après le départ d’Ulysse,
c. 1775 - 1778, oil on copper 39,4 x 34,3 cm. Musée cantonal des
Beaux-Arts de Lausanne. Acquired 1992. Photo: Musée cantonal
des Beaux-Arts, Jean-Claude Ducret
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4
François Sablet, Offrande à Hymen, 1783, oil on canvas, 174,7 x
143,5 cm. Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne. Acquired
by the Musée jointly with the Gottfried Keller Foundation, 2011.
Photo : Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Pénélope Henriod
Jacques Sablet, Portrait de famille avec le Colisée, 1791, oil on
canvas, 60 x 72 cm. Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de
Lausanne. Held in trust for the Gottfried Keller Foundation, 1932.
Photo: Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Nora Rupp
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6
Abraham-Louis-Rodolphe Ducros, Source dans les Abruzzes, c. 1794,
watercolour heightened with gouache for the figures, on paper, 68 x 104 cm.
Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne. Ducros Collection. Acquired
1816. Photo: Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Jean-Claude Ducret
Jean-Pierre Saint-Ours, Le tremblement de terre, 1806, oil on
canvas, 143,5 x 186,5 cm. Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de
Lausanne.
Photo: Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Jean-Claude Ducret
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PRESS IMAGES
Loans from public Institutions
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Jean Raoux, Le Silence ou L’Indiscrète, 1728, oil on canvas,
126 x 97 x 2,5 cm. Musée Calvet, Avignon, Puech Collection
DR
Jacques Sablet, The Happy Family, c. 1783, oil on canvas,
71 x 102 cm. Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh
DR
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Johann Friedrich August Tischbein, Portrait de Nicolas Châtelain dans le
jardin, 1791, oil on canvas, 219 x 133,5 cm. Munich, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen - Neue Pinakothek
DR
Jacques Sablet, Mr. Hope of Amsterdam playing cricket, c. 1792,
oil on canvas, 57,5 x 47,5 cm. Marylebone Cricket Club Museum,
London
DR
Poster
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J. Sablet, Portrait de famille avec le Colisée (detail), 1791, Musée cantonal des
Beaux-Arts de Lausanne. R. de Constant, Herbier, Pavot coquelicot (detail),
Musée et Jardins botaniques cantonaux, Lausanne. Collage: Claudia Renna
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