L’appropriation du modèle du Louvre par les musées de province au tournant du xixe siècle

Abstract

The Louvre, a central museum with a universal and encyclopaedic vocation, would seem to constitute at first glance an ideal and legitimate model for flourishing museums, particularly during a period such as the Revolution. The complex ties between provincial museums and the central administration and the Louvre are in the image of a plural history of these institutions, teaching us that, fashioned by a profoundly local history made of both personal and collective initiatives, the museums experiencing multiple trajectories, modelled by the import of identity issues. It was between theorisation and material reality, via each museum’s intentions, that emerged the various forms of appropriation between museums.

Keywords

• Revolution
• drawing school
• fine arts school
• apprenticeship
• musée du Louvre
• Muséum central