Appearance: Beauty(ies) in representation (18th/21st centuries).
Snoeck/Lunéville Castle/Meurthe & Moselle Department.| N° d'inventaire | 31024 |
| Format | 22.6 x 28.6 |
| Détails | 460 p., numerous photographs and color illustrations, publisher's hardcover. |
| Publication | Gent, 2024 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9789461618733 |
This exhibition was conceived following the exceptional acquisition of the dressing mirror of Duchess Elisabeth Charlotte of Orléans and the creation of an embroidered ceremonial toilet intended to accompany it, while promoting local know-how in the arts and crafts, one of the themes chosen for the scientific and cultural project of the future renovated castle-museum. It presents around 150 works from the museum's collections or loaned for the occasion by around forty museum and heritage institutions (Musée des Arts Décoratifs de Paris, Château de Versailles, Musée du Louvre, Paris musées, Musée Lorrain de Nancy, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon, etc.), galleries and private collectors, both French and foreign.
The exhibition aims to highlight the institution's acquisition of the mirror that the Duchess of Lorraine used every morning during her public toilet ceremony before the court. The dramatization of these intimate gestures, characteristic of court societies in Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries, resonates with the very contemporary exhibition of self-image. The exhibition, and the associated book, juxtapose 18th-century works with contemporary creations.
This exhibition was conceived following the exceptional acquisition of the dressing mirror of Duchess Elisabeth Charlotte of Orléans and the creation of an embroidered ceremonial toilet intended to accompany it, while promoting local know-how in the arts and crafts, one of the themes chosen for the scientific and cultural project of the future renovated castle-museum. It presents around 150 works from the museum's collections or loaned for the occasion by around forty museum and heritage institutions (Musée des Arts Décoratifs de Paris, Château de Versailles, Musée du Louvre, Paris musées, Musée Lorrain de Nancy, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon, etc.), galleries and private collectors, both French and foreign.
The exhibition aims to highlight the institution's acquisition of the mirror that the Duchess of Lorraine used every morning during her public toilet ceremony before the court. The dramatization of these intimate gestures, characteristic of court societies in Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries, resonates with the very contemporary exhibition of self-image. The exhibition, and the associated book, juxtapose 18th-century works with contemporary creations.