Tours - Love on stage. Francois Boucher, Theater at the Opera

The Museum of Fine Arts in Tours offers to highlight an unknown part of the career of François Boucher (1703-1770), Major painter of the 18th century in the service of Louis XV and Madame de Pompadour: his passion for theater and opera.

Active at the Paris Opera, at the Opéra-Comique and at the theater of small cabinets in Versailles, François Boucher works throughout his life to almost a hundred shows. That he designs or oversees the sets and stage costumes, No other painter of his time was so invested in the theatrical world.
Starting point of the exhibition and restored on this occasion, The four paintings of the Museum of Tours, masterpieces of rock art, testify to the artist's craze for scene arts. Alongside the sketch ofApollo crowning the arts, reputed to be a stage curtain project for the opera, The three paintings of Apollo and Issé and Sylvie and Amint honor the baroque operas ofIssé and ofSilvie.Apollo revealing his deity in the shepherdess Issé is indeed painted by Boucher in 1750 for the Marquise de Pompadour, In memory of his theatrical performances in Versailles in the role of Issé. Likewise, Tables ofSylvie fleeing the wolf andAmicant returning to life in Sylvie's arms recall its theatrical appearance in the role of the nymph. Originally designed to form a set of four tables, The series in the history of Sylvie and Aminte will be brought together for the first time since the 18th century, thanks to the exceptional loans of the National Bank of France (which keeps todaySylvie heaks Philis of the bite of a bee andSylvie delivered by Aminte). Maturity, These paintings constitute a magnificent testimony to the talent of François Boucher to portray the bucolic universes, wonderful and theatrical.
Completed by around sixty works, in particular the National Library of France and the Louvre Museum, The exhibition will also illustrate other contributions to plug the scene arts. Of its youth engravings to illustrate theWorks Molière, which is celebrated this year the four hundredth anniversary of the birth, with sets and costumes designed for various operas such asArmid WhereAline, Golconde Queen, The works gathered shed light on the vitality of its creation.
Deployed around museum paintings, prints, Decorative tapestries and art objects will be accompanied by works of modern and contemporary art, From Berthe Morisot to Cindy Sherman. The contribution of fashion designer Sami Nouri will finally reveal how to Boucher and the Rococo continue to inspire artists from the 21st century.
The exhibition is to be discovered from November 5, 2022 to January 30, 2023, Thanks to the prestigious loans of many institutions: National Library of France / Louvre Museum / National Museum of Châteaux de Versailles and Trianon / Moulins, National Center for Scene Costume / Narbonne, Museum of Art and History / Paris, National furniture / Paris, Marmottan-Monet museum / National Center for Plastic Arts / Paris, Banque de France / Sèvres, City of ceramics / Paris, Decorative Arts Museum / Paris, Cognacq-Jay / Paris museum, Small palace / agen, Museum of Fine Arts.

Exhibition police station:
Jessica Degain, Heritage curator in charge of the XVIIᵉ-XIXᵉ centuries collections of the Museum of Fine Arts in Tours
Guillaume Kazerouni, conservative, Responsible for the old collections of the Museum of Fine Arts in Rennes

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Saturday 05 November 2022

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