. May to Museum,Fine Arts Bordeaux canvas,, on oil September 2020 A British season in Portrait of Mrs James Mrs Arden of Portrait , Bordeaux Gilbert Stuart Become a partner of the Fine Arts Museum of Bordeaux Sir Thomas Lawrence Portrait of Sir George Beaumont, 1808 Oil on canvas Louvre, Paris 2 CONTENTS 5 So British! A British season in Bordeaux British Stories: British paintings from the 6 Louvre and the Fine Arts Museum of Bordeaux 10 Absolutely bizarre! Strange stories from the Bristol School (1800-1840) 14 Becoming our partner for the British season! 16 Your advantages 17 Our patronage needs 18 The Fine Arts Museum of Bordeaux 19 Contacts 3 John Martin, Macbeth and the three witches, c. 1850 Oil on canvas Fine Arts Museum of Bordeaux John Lewis Brown, La Chaussée de Charleroi à la veille de Waterloo (The Charleroi road on the day before Waterloo), 19th century Oil on canvas 4 Fine Arts Museum of Bordeaux. So British! A British season in Bordeaux May to September 2020 Located right in the centre of Bordeaux – a city twinned with Bristol – the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux (Fine Arts Museum) is planning a programme of an exceptional calibre with a rich and fascinating collection of British works that will hoist the colours of the Union Jack. In partnership with Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, the Louvre and the Musée de la Vie Romantique in Paris, the museum will present two exhibitions devoted to British art from September 2019 to September 2020. At the same time, it will work in association with numerous regional institutions (Bordeaux National Opera, theatres, etc.) to create a programme including a range of artistic disciplines, giving pride of place to British culture. 5 BRITISH STORIES British masterpieces from the Louvre and the Fine Arts Museum of Bordeaux Fine Arts Museum, new display, north and south wings May – September 2020 The objective of this exhibition is to highlight the Bordeaux museum’s collection of British works (it is one of the rare French regional museums which houses several masterpieces from the British School, including paintings by Lawrence, Reynolds, Ramsay, West and Stuart), enriched for the occasion by the exceptional loan of around ten masterpieces from the English collection at the Louvre. The works will be presented as part of the permanent pathway through the collections, with dedicated museography. A catalogue giving an update on research related to these works will be published in cooperation with Guillaume Faroult, curator at the Louvre and associate curator of this exhibition. The catalogue will include the story of how this British collection arrived in Bordeaux, particularly through the allocation of numerous works taken from the Jews by the Nazis during the second world war and awaiting restitution to their owners or their beneficiaries. 6 Sir Joshua Reynolds, Master Hare, 1788-1789 Oil on canvas Louvre, Paris 7 CURATORSHIP Sophie Barthélémy, director, Fine Arts Museum of Bordeaux. Sandra Buratti-Hasan, deputy director, Fine Arts Museum of Bordeaux. Guillaume Faroult, curator in charge of 18th century French painting and British and American painting at the Louvre. Allan Ramsay, Portrait of Countess Elizabeth of Salisbury, 1769 Oil on canvas Fine Arts Museum of Bordeaux. 8 Sir Joshua Reynolds Portrait of Richard Robinson, Bishop of Armagh, 1775 Oil on canvas Fine Arts Museum of Bordeaux. 9 ABSOLUTELY BIZARRE Strange stories from the Bristol School (1800-1840) Fine Arts Gallery May – September 2020 This second exhibition will be presented at the Fine Arts Gallery opposite the museum, and will focus on the Bristol School (Danby, Müller, Jackson, Coleman...). This School is completely unknown and little studied in France. It includes a group of artists native from Bristol and its surrounding area who were active between 1810 and 1840 and won fame with landscape painting, sometimes with a touch of fantasy, and genre painting of a social nature. Their leader, Francis Danby, is the only one to be represented in public collections in France with a work entitled Christ walking on the water, recently acquired by the Louvre thanks to the Forbes donation. The Fine Arts Museum will host around 80 works, mainly from the museum in Bristol, a city that has been twinned with Bordeaux for 71 years, to which will be added some loans from the Victoria Art Gallery in Bath, Tate Britain in London (including Turner’s watercolours on the theme of the fire at the Houses of Parliament in London, exhibited for the first time, together with contemporaneous gouaches by Müller illustrating riots in Bristol) and the Louvre. 10 Samuel Coleman The Destruction of Pharaoh's Host, 1830 Oil on canvas Museum & Art Gallery, Bristol 11 CURATORSHIP Sophie Barthélémy, director, Fine Arts Museum of Bordeaux. Sandra Buratti-Hasan, deputy director, Fine Arts Museum of Bordeaux. Guillaume Faroult, curator in charge of 18th century French painting and British and American painting at the Louvre. Francis Danby (1793–1861), A Scene in Leigh Woods, 1822 Oil on canvas Museum & Art Gallery, Bristol 12 Rolinda Sharples, The artist and her mother, 1816 Oil on board Museum & Art Gallery, Bristol 13 Becoming our partner for the British season! Thomas Lawrence Charles William Bell, 1797-1798 Oil on canvas, Louvre, Paris 14 By sponsoring the British season, your company will become part of Bordeaux’s cultural history. This also means: ❖ Helping to conserve and improve knowledge of collections of British paintings, which are part of our European heritage. ❖ Involving your employees, partners and clients in prestigious events and gathering them around shared values. ❖ Associating your company’s image with the Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, the Louvre Museum and Fine Arts Museum of Bordeaux. ❖ Promoting your expertise in the framework of skill-based sponsorship. Corporate patronage Every time your company sponsors the Fine Arts Museum of Bordeaux., it will benefit from a reduction in corporation tax amounting to 60% of the donation made, up to a limit of 0.5% of its annual turnover (net of VAT). The tax reduction can be spread over five fiscal years. Donation to the museum 3,000 € 10,000 € 30,000 € Tax deduction - 1,800 € 6,000 € 18,000 € 60% of donation Real cost to the company 1,200 € 4,000 € 12,000 € Moreover, you will receive exceptional benefits (see following page) to a value that may be up to 25% of the amount donated (in order to maintain a “marked disproportion” with the donation, as required by law). 15 Your advantages PRESENCE ON COMMUNCATION MATERIALS Benefit from a high visibility to a large audience, thanks to the presence of your company’s name or logo on publicity related to the exhibitions (leaflets, invitations, acknowledgements panels in the exhibitions, speeches of thanks, press packs, exhibition catalogues) and in the museum’s general communications (Internet site, twice-yearly list of events, etc.) PRIVILEGED ACCESS TO EXHIBITIONS Benefit from invitations to exhibition openings, custom private visits and workshops. Visit the museum with a curator and discover treasures that are not on display to the public. EXCEPTIONAL EVENTS To improve your public relations, organise a prestigious cocktail or dinner in the sumptuous northern hall of the museum. 16 Our patronage needs We are looking for companies and foundations to complement the resources available to the museum and to help us to finance this exceptional large-scale project. Our requirements include: Setting up two exhibitions: curatorship, museography, scenography, restoration, framing, boxing and transport of the works, publishing of catalogues. Cultural programme: major events, organised in association with the British Consulate, the British Council and cultural bodies from the Aquitaine region, for example the Opera House and the School of Fine Arts, aiming to include many disciplines (dance, theatre, music…), leading to interaction between French and British cultures. How can you help us? You can sponsor us in kind, in skills (provision of expertise) or financially (cash contribution for the project of your choice). Example of a painting that requires restoration for the exhibition: Anonymous British artist Family gathering, 19th century, oil on canvas Fine Arts Museum of Bordeaux 17 THE FINE ARTS MUSEUM OF BORDEAUX Bordeaux is a booming metropolitan area: a World Heritage Site since 2007, it joined the Villes d'Art et d'Histoire (Towns of Art and History) network in 2009. It currently tops the rankings of French regional capitals in terms of life, study, work and entertainment. The Fine Arts Museum of Bordeaux Bordeaux’s oldest municipal museum, founded in 1801 – is a major cultural stakeholder in the city. Located in two wings linked by the City Hall gardens, it also has a temporary exhibition space, the Fine Arts Gallery. 2 exhibition 2,500 m2 of 110,000 sites exhibitions visitors a year The museum’s north wing underwent renovation until 2013. The transformation of the institution is still ongoing, with the revamping of the entrance hall and the creation of a rest area and a new shop, inaugurated on 29 May 2018, and the rehabilitation of the south wing: new route around the sculptures, upgrading of the lighting and enriching of the interpretative tools. THE COLLECTION The collection, which includes 8,000 works (paintings, sculptures and graphic arts), is regularly expanded, particularly thanks to donations. It offers a magnificent overview of western art from the Renaissance to the 20th century. There are works by Titian, Rubens, Van Dyck, Chardin, Delacroix, Corot, Matisse and artists from the Bordeaux area including Redon, Marquet and Lhote. They arouse interest among all the publics, amateurs and experts, and are regularly loaned, both in France and abroad. THE EXHIBITIONS Since 2014, at the instigation of director Sophie Barthélémy, the museum has set up ambitious exhibitions such as Bacchanales modernes, Redon and Dorignac.