British Stories Exhibition - Bordeaux Museum of Fine Arts
The British art collections held by the Bordeaux Museum of Fine Arts form a coherent corpus of thirty paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures. This exhibition divided into sections is an occasion to admire them all and compare them with works loaned by the Louvre, the prestigious partner to this British Year!
A significant portion of the exhibition is dedicated to portraiture, a genre in which British painters excelled in the 16th century. In the 17th century, Flemish painter Anthony van Dyck was invited to stay at the Court of Charles I of England during the last decade of his career, a period that was a pivotal moment in the development of European portrait art whose conventions van Dyck reinvented (Modello of the Double Portrait of the Palatinate Princes Charles Louis I and Prince Rupert, the king’s nephew, Museum of Fine Arts, Bordeaux).
Among his most famous heirs we can mention Sir Joshua Reynolds, represented by his celebrated ‘Master Hare’(Louvre) and other compelling portraits (Portrait of Richard Robinson, Archbishop of Armagh, Museum of Fine Arts, Bordeaux).
This survey of British portraiture culminates with the Portrait of John Hunter by Sir Thomas Lawrence (Museum of Fine Arts, Bordeaux). In the history painting genre, the exhibition gives a special place to artists under-represented in French public collections, namely James Ward, with his superb Baptism of Christ (Louvre), Benjamin West (Phaeton asking Apollo to Drive the Sun Chariot (Louvre) and Johann Zoffany (The Triumph of Venus and Venus and Adonis (Museum of Fine Arts, Bordeaux).
Interestingly, the typically British genre, the conversation piece, is also represented along with landscape, dominated by the dramatic canvas by John Martin, Macbeth (Museum of Fine Arts, Bordeaux).
The Museum of Fine Arts and its close partner the Louvre look forward to taking you on a fascinating journey of paintings from across the Channel, on an itinerary through the most significant works of art by generations of innovative, inquisitive and daring artists.
Exhibition Dates: 12th November 2020 to September 19th 2021
Exhibition Hours: Everyday from 11:00 to 18:00, except Tuesdays
Venue: Musée des Beaux-Arts, 20 Cours d'Albret, Bordeaux, France
Visitor Information - www.musba-bordeaux.fr/en/article/prepare-your-visit-0
Website - www.musba-bordeaux.fr/en/exhibitions
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