Un Américain au Louvre ? L’architecte William Welles Bosworth et le réaménagement du musée du Louvre dans le cadre du « plan Verne » (1925-1939) by Églantine Pasquier

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L’antiquaire Georges Joseph Demotte, le Louvre et les musées américains. S’approprier le discours sur le patrimoine médiéval de la France au sortir de la Première Guerre mondiale... by Christine Vivet-Peclet

“…Through his sales, Demotte would contribute to the enrichment of American collections such as those of Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840–1924), George Grey Barnard (1863–1938), Raymond Pitcairn (1885–1966), William Randolph Hearst (1863–951) and John D. Rockefeller Junior (1874–1960). Each of these collectors, whose profiles and tastes were very different, referred in the way they chose to present their collections to France, its heritage and its museums, but less to the Louvre than to other institutions such as the Musée de Sculpture comparée and the Musée de Cluny.…”
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