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Summer Selection: From Sketch to Dream. Composing the Ideal Landscape<\/p>\n
Throughout the summer, the City of Namur and the Namur Archaeological Society are exhibiting an exceptional sketchbook from the King Baudouin Foundation and showcasing a selection of landscape works from the permanent collection of the Museum of Decorative Arts.<\/p>\n
On display to the public for the first time is a remarkable sketchbook by a Namur painter from the De Bouge dynasty, recently acquired by the Pierre-Fran\u00e7ois Tilmon Fund \u2013 managed by the King Baudouin Foundation \u2013 on behalf of the Namur Archaeological Society.<\/p>\n
Alongside it, and equally never before seen, will be another sketchbook held in the collections of the Namur Archaeological Society: that of Jean-Baptiste Juppin (1678\u20131729), a leading figure in landscape painting in the Principality of Li\u00e8ge.<\/p>\n
The occasion also marks the return to the museum of three of Juppin\u2019s four landscapes from the same society\u2019s collections, which have just been restored by students at the \u00c9cole nationale sup\u00e9rieure des Arts visuels de La Cambre. Their rediscovery highlights the full richness of one of the greatest landscape painters to have hailed from Namur. Now restored to their former splendour, these works also illustrate the mastery of an artist who skilfully blended the traditions of the North with the idealised landscapes inherited from Italy. These collections offer a rare insight into the artists\u2019 studios and reveal the stages involved in creating an idealised natural world, from the sketch to the finished work.<\/p>\n
It is worth noting that a series of portraits and self-portraits of Namur artists \u2013 or their relatives \u2013 from the 18th and 19th centuries, as well as other landscapes from the permanent collections, will be specially highlighted in the museum\u2019s galleries.<\/p>\n
Through these unprecedented (re)discoveries, the public is invited to step into the painters\u2019 studios and follow, step by step, the path leading from sketch to dream.<\/p>\n
This summer selection will be on display from 7 July to 30 August, starting from the main foyer of the Museum of Decorative Arts.<\/p>\n
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