David Brouzet, lead professor for Decorative Arts at IESA arts&culture,
He offers Master in Old Master Art students a series of visits to exceptional venues to meet art specialists.
This program corresponds to visits to workshops and manufactories that complement the sessions devoted to analyzing and commenting on works for the techniques of cabinetmaking, joinery, tapestry and ceramics.
This three-week “case study” program alternates methodology courses on the analysis and commentary of works (furniture - objets d’art and painting) with visits to workshops and manufactories and meetings with art market and museum professionals. During the third week, the program concludes with practice sessions in this method of analysis and commentary.
The first week will revolve around ceramics and seating furniture, with meetings with Pierre-Richard Royer of SA ARMETAL, collector and dealer of maiolica, then with Charles Hooreman, specialist in 18th-century French seating furniture, and with Histovery, operator of augmented tours, with a visit to the Conciergerie using Histovery’s histopads, then to the Château de Vincennes with Rachel Lalande of the Centre des Monuments nationaux.
The second week will continue around portraiture and history painting with several meetings: Guillaume Deniel, president of Denniel Immobilier, Antiquaires en Immeubles; then the students will address tapestry and cabinetmaking with a visit to the Gobelins workshops and the Mobilier National storage with Muriel Barbier, curator in charge of the textile collections at the Mobilier National.
This week will close with a Day at Écouen, at the Musée national de la Renaissance, and a visit to the exhibition “Engraving the Renaissance. Étienne Delaune and the Decorative Arts,” with commentary by the exhibition curator, Julie Rohou, curator at the Musée national de la Renaissance in Écouen.
Our Masters students will have lunch at the restaurant At the Kings' Table with Julie Rohou; the lunch is offered by IESA arts&culture, and they will then visit the château and the permanent collections.
To finish in style, the third week includes a guided tour of the Musée national de Céramique de Sèvres, followed by a visit to the workshops of the Sèvres manufactory. A study of goldsmithing and painted decoration will be followed by a visit to Isabelle Turquin’s Galerie d’orfèvrerie. Finally, the last visit will take place at Galerie Féau & Compagnie (specialists in antique paneling), 9, rue Laugier, 75017 Paris with Guillaume Féau and Peggy Chervier.