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Concept Car

28 November 2019 23 March 2020
This exhibition, organized by Compiègne Castle and the Réunion des Musées Nationaux, is a sign of the revival of the Car National Museum, the first museum in the world dedicated to locomotion, which was opened in Compiègne in 1927....

Composed of twenty vehicles, as well as photographs, documents, preparatory drawings, models, this exhibition will present the motor vehicle in its closest form to the object of art: the Concept Car. Appeared in the 1910s, this type of vehicle is usually in the form of a single copy, made for aerodynamic study or style, or later commercial promotion.

All major manufacturers, as well as designers and coachbuilders, have produced this type of vehicle, which is known in the United States as Dream Cars. Often destroyed after an ephemeral presentation during a season, some of these models have reached us.

Versailles Revival 1867-1937

19 November 2019 15 March 2020
One hundred years after the French Revolution, at the dawn of the "Belle Époque", a spectacular phenomenon of enthusiasm, nostalgia, curiosity and passion developed around the Versailles of the Ancien Régime. Through nearly 350 works - including a large part from private and international collections -, documents and photographs, the exhibition "Versailles Revival" retraces this surprising moment...

If the first signs of this new craze appeared in the Second Empire, through Empress Eugénie's veneration of Marie-Antoinette, it was at the end of the century that fascination spread to the artistic and literary circles. Marcel Proust rediscovers this "Versailles, a great name that is rusty and soft, a royal cemetery of foliage, vast waters and marble". The most diverse painters are inspired by it, from the Russian Alexandre Benois to Georges Rouault, Gaston la Touche, Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer and Henri Le Sidaner, but also photographers like Eugène Atget, Edward Steichen and Man Ray. Cinema also took up the subject from the very beginning.

Furniture and decorative arts display the great royal examples. In the same way, the Castle served as a model for that of Louis II of Bavaria, as well as for the residences of Boni de Castellane and Alva Vanderbilt, and up to the 1912 French liner known as "le Versailles des mers". Incredible holidays bring back to life

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