- Jewellery – sets and individual pieces – of the Malmaison and Palais de Compiègne national museums
10th online catalogue
Jewellery is always the stuff of dreams: first and foremost for women, and then for the men who mostly give them as gifts. Many of them were associated with important personal and historic events, and others reflect customs, fashion and technical advances in the 19th century.
While this is an area that is not often covered in museums, the collection preserved in the four Napoleonic museums – Compiègne, Malmaison, Ajaccio and L’île d’Aix – have been the subject of an in-depth study by the honorary head of conservation and heritage, Claudette Joannis.
- Thirteenth century sculptures in the Cluny Museum
Complementing the catalogue raisonné of 11th and 12th century sculptures published in 2005, this catalogue brings together over 750 works from places as prestigious as Notre-Dame de Paris, Sainte-Chapelle, Saint-Louis de Poissy and La Chapelle de la Vierge in Saint-Germain-des-Prés.
The sculptures are presented according to a geographical and chronological plan by region or town of origin, then by the construction start date of the buildings from which they originate.
- Drawings from the Gustave Moreau Museum
This online catalogue provides over 1,200 colour images. The site allows you to use: a navigable zoom tool to examine the minutest details of a drawing; a free search facility; or a search across seven indexes (by iconographic subject, artist, and copied work – a total of 6,700 indexed entries are available, not to mention the hypertext links in each description of a work).
_We also offer the collected works edited by Marie-Cécile Forest, on sale in all bookshops.
Catalogue sommaire des dessins (Summary catalogue of drawings) – Rmn editions, (21 x 27 cm) bound, 992 pages, 100 colour illustrations, 4830 b/w illustrations, 400 €.
- Le Roc-aux-Sorciers: art and jewellery in the Magdalenian period
This 7th online catalogue contains the collections of parietal art from the Magdalenian period, which came from the collapsed ceiling of the rock shelter at Le Roc-aux-Sorciers (in Angles-sous-l’Anglin in the Vienne départment), as well as portable art and jewellery kept in the Musée d’Archéologie nationale, comprising 288 descriptions which also show the representations in situ, a unique collection regarded as the “Lascaux of sculpture”.
- Gallery of Mirrors at Versailles
The Gallery of Mirrors, the plush surroundings for big parties held by the court of King Louis XIV, has undergone a restoration started in 2004 and completed in June 2007, overseen by Vinci.
This new scientific online catalogue deciphers the paintings from the Gallery’s famous vaulted ceiling and the War and Peace drawing rooms.
The catalogue of illustrations published online offers detailed navigation of the decorative composition, broken down into zones and viewable using a zoom facility. The texts, comparative works and illustrative indexing decode the historic and symbolic messages of all the allegories and characters represented.
- Masterpieces from the Grandidier collection of China ceramics at the Asian Arts-Guimet National Museum
First catalogue to be published online in 2004.
Around 2000 objets d’art housed at the Guimet Museum.
- Versailles, decorative outdoor sculptures
Nearly 1320 sculptures which decorate the outdoors of buildings around the national estate of the Château de Versailles and de Trianon.
- Contemporary French ceramics, 1955-2005, from the National Museum of Ceramics, Sèvres
More than 520 contemporary ceramics housed at the National Museum of Ceramics in Sèvres.
- Drawings at the Château de Pau
285 drawings, from the 17th to the 20th century, housed at the Château de Pau National Museum.
- French drawings at the Magnin Museum, Dijon
492 drawings and engravings of a collection of artists from the 17th to the 19th centuries from the collection of the Magnin Museum in Dijon.
