Delaperche

Interactive 360 ​​° virtual tour of the first temporary exhibition dedicated to the artist Jean-Marie Delaperche (1771-1843) at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Orléans and entitled "An artist facing the torments of History".

Without the reappearance on the art market of ninety-one drawings, four of which were signed, the name of Laperche / Delaperche, barely identified in the repertoires, would have remained buried among the anonymous of the nineteenth century. An artist as singular as he is enigmatic, he is above all by the few traces left on his path, as if he had been only a melancholy shadow crossing as a silent witness the Ancien Régime, the years of the Revolution. , the Empire, the Restoration and the July Monarchy. This book reconstructs a puzzle made up of clues which, thanks to the work of an investigator, have made it possible to reconstruct the biography of this extraordinary character, which overlaps that of a mother and a brother, also painters. From Orleans in Russia, from revolutionary Paris to Moscow on fire, among the Rohan-Chabot, the Venevitinovs or the Duchess of Berry, autograph annotations in memories of contemporaries, the mystery rises over the feverish work of a painter facing the torments of History, revealing atypical careers which only make this family of artists whose history begins here all the more endearing.

Navigate from one room to another, discover the texts of the exhibition, listen to its audios and zoom in on the works ...