Exhibition: What traumas do the portraits of Adèle in Romance hide?

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Exhibition: What traumas do the portraits of Adèle in Romance hide?

Exhibition: What traumas do the portraits of Adèle in Romance hide?

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REVIEW - In Grasse, the Fragonard Museum rescues from oblivion this painter, daughter of an aristocrat, who knew how to pursue a career in Paris through all the regimes up to the Restoration.

After Marguerite Gérard, the four Lemoine sisters, and their cousin Jeanne-Élisabeth Chaudet, Carole Blumenfeld, an art historian specializing in early Romanticism in painting, has set out on the trail of another female portraitist of this period: Adèle de Romance (1769-1846). From her immersion in the archives both in Paris and in the regions, including the central notary's office, she has emerged with a wealth of details relating to this almost forgotten artist.

And with the means of an exhibition at the Musée Fragonard in Grasse , a place as pleasantly perfumed as it is rich in art with the Hélène and Jean-François Costa collection. This original collection focuses on painters active during the end of the Ancien Régime, following them if necessary until the Restoration. The tour in just three rooms brings together around twenty autographed canvases, plus a few others by rivals or friends. The majority of this original collection comes from private owners; often…

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