Annick Lemoine is a specialist in old debauchery, at least those that European painting of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries sang a lot.
We owe him, among other things, an exhibition at the Villa Medici and the Petit Palais in 2015 on vices and bawdy parties in baroque Rome as well as the first retrospective dedicated to the sulphurous caravaggio Valentin de Boulogne, shown in New York and at the Louvre in 2017. Since she took over the management of the Cognacq-Jay Museum in 2019 - the Donon hotel in the Marais being precisely one of the high places of 18th century art - she has been working to revive the collection.
The one bequeathed to the City of Paris by Ernest Cognacq (1839-1928), founder of the Samaritaine stores, and his wife Marie-Louise Jaÿ.
But, in this time of general closure of museums, how to maintain the desire to see the Boucher, the Fragonard and other Greuze libertines?
The curator has imagined an exhibition called "The Empire of the Senses"
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