The Musée de la Boverie in Liège is hosting more than 350 works from the collections of nine women of the Rothschild family under a partnership with the Louvre.
The new exhibition opens on Friday and runs until 26 February 2023. It is the result of a new collaboration with the Louvre Museum, following 'En plein air' in 2016 and 'Viva Roma!' in 2018.
Since the 19th century, the Rothschild name has been associated with a line of bankers. Over the course of the 19th and 20th centuries, the family accumulated a considerable artistic heritage and made donations and bequests estimated at over 130,000 pieces to French institutions.
This exhibition brings together more than 350 works from the collections of nine women of the Rothschild family, patrons and donors.
Over an area of more than 2,000 square metres, it traces the tastes and personalities of these women, sometimes very independent, sometimes in the shadow of their husbands, who played an important role in history, the history of art, society and the lives of many artists of their time.
The works are from all periods and all horizons, ranging from pieces of great artists such as Fragonard, Chardin, Delacroix, Cézanne and Rodin … to paintings of the Italian Renaissance through jewelry and porcelain, pipes, matchboxes, skulls and art from Africa and the Far East.
