Sculptures meet paintings
A tour of more than thirty sculptures in the museum’s two wings
The Lacour wing
A selection of around ten sculptures from the museum’s collections illustrates the variety of styles, subjects and materials used in statues from the Renaissance to the Age of Enlightenment. These include a 15th-century alabaster Visitation attributed to the English school and a bust of a child, characteristic of Flemish Baroque sculpture. Great names such as Jean-Louis Lemoyne, Lucas de Montigny, Pierre-François Berruer and Jean-Antoine Houdon are also honoured.
In 2018, four sculptures on loan from the Musée du Louvre were added to the exhibition, further enhancing the dialogue with the paintings. They are a polychrome stone Pietà from the Cîteaux region (first half of the 16th century), a seated Virgin with the Child on her right knee from the workshop of Santi Buglioni in partially glazed terracotta (first half of the 16th century) which belonged to the prestigious Campana collection, and two marble busts representing the allegories of Charity and Geometry, now attributed to the Genoese school of the early 18th century.
The Bonheur wing
Since the renovation of the Bonheur wing in 2014, a series of sculptures from the 19th and 20th centuries has been on display, including some of the biggest names: Antoine-Louis Barye, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, Charles Despiau, Rinaldo Carnielo, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Auguste Rodin, Pablo Gargallo, Ossip Zadkine and François Morellet.
