In the basement, the space devoted to temporary exhibitions at the Musée des beaux-arts d'Orléans looks like a crypt. Above the arcade leading to it, the scenographer Nathalie Crinière reproduced one of the 91 ancient drawings discovered in 2017. It is an allegory accompanied by this handwritten legend: "All ages pass on the wing of time" ... All ? It is to be seen because here at least whole swathes of artists' lives are resuscitated. Both those of the author of these sheets, Jean-Marie Delaperche (1771-1843), as well as those of other artist members of his family.
At the start, a meager child's painting and a few handwritten pages offer a disappointing first section of appearance. But these milestones, baptismal certificates or account books, are, with a few documents scattered along the route, those which make it possible to reconstruct an amazing biographical puzzle.
Her portrait of Mme Danton could be a sign of a Girondine tiltWe first get to know Jean-Marie's mother. This Thérèse Delaperche (1743-1814), daughter of a haberdasher seller of inks and paintings,
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