Fondation Custodia - Current Events

Exhibitions organised by the Fondation Custodia
6 October 2009 - 10 January 2010
	Watteau to Degas : French Drawings from the Frits Lugt Collection A selection of 64 French 18th and 19th century drawings from the holdings of the Fondation Custodia is shown in The Frick Collection in New York. On view until 10 January 2010, the exhibition includes drawings and watercolours by well-known masters of the French School, including Watteau, Boucher, Fragonard, David, Corot, Delacroix, Ingres and Degas, as well as by important artists who may be less familiar to the general public. This is the first public exhibition in the States to focus on the French eighteenth- and nineteenth-century works on paper from the Collection Frits Lugt. The exhibition was organised by the Frick’s Associate Director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator Colin B. Bailey and Senior Curator Susan Grace Galassi and is accompanied by a catalogue (version both in English and French available). For more information see: The Frick Collection Afterwards the exhibition will be presented at the Institut Néerlandais in Paris (11 February - 11 April 2010).
19 November 2009 - 24 January 2010
	Maîtres du Nord. Tableaux du musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen is the fourth French museum to be invited by the Fondation Custodia to exhibit their Dutch and Flemish paintings in the Institut Néerlandais in Paris. Among the fine works selected we find a large diversity of artists and subjects: biblical and allegorical scenes by Maerten de Vos, Pieter Aertsen and Abraham Bloemaert, still-lifes by Willem Kalf and Jan Davidsz. de Heem and landscapes by Jan van Goyen, Allaert van Everdingen and Cornelis van Poelenburgh, to name but a few. A catalogue (in French) will be published with colour illustrations. For more information see the site of the Institut Néerlandais
Recent publications initiated by the Fondation Custodia For more information and ordering forms see “Bibliography”
2004	Regards sur l'art hollandais du XVIIème siècle, Frits Lugt et les Fréres Dutuit collectionneurs Catalogue of the exhibition held in the Institut Néerlandais, Paris, 18 March to 16 May 2004. In collaboration with the Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris.
2004	Jongkind intime. Dessins, estampes et lettres de Jongkind et son entourage dans la Collection Frits Lugt, by Rhea Sylvia Blok Exposition-dossier V, catalogue of the exhibition held in the Hôtel Turgot, Institut Néerlandais, Paris, 2 June - 18 July 2004.
2005	Mélange russe. Dessins, estampes et lettres russes de la Collection Frits Lugt, by Stijn Alsteens. Exposition-dossier VI, catalogue of the exhibition held in the Hôtel Turgot, Institut Néerlandais, Paris, 15 September – 23 October 2005.
2005	Cadres revisités. Chefs-d’œuvre de la photographie néerlandaise présentés dans les cadres anciens de la Collection Frits Lugt, by Willem van Zoetendaal, Esther Scholten and Anouk Laverge. Exposition-dossier VII, catalogue of the exhibition held in the Hôtel Turgot, Institut Néerlandais, Paris, 3 November – 18 December 2005.
2006	Rembrandt. Les dessins de Dresde, by Christian Dittrich, Thomas Ketelsen, in collaboration with Katrin Bielmeier and Christien Melzer, Kupferstich-Kabinett Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Fondation Custodia, Paris Catalogue of the exhibition Rembrandt et son école. Dessins de l’ancienne collection royale de Dresde, Institut Néerlandais, Paris, 30 March – 21 May 2006
2007	De Abildgaard à Hammershøi – 75 dessins danois, by Michael Bjørn Nellemann and Per Jonas Storsve Exposition-dossier VIII, catalogue of the exhibition held at the Maison du Danemark, Paris, 21 March – 27 May 2007 and at the Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, 23 June – 2 September 2007
2007	Louis Napoléon. Premier roi de Hollande. 1806-1810, under the direction of Paul Rem and George Sanders. Publication with catalogue for the exhibition À la Cour de Louis Napoléon. Premier roi de Hollande, held at the Institut Néerlandais, Paris, 11 October – 18 November 2007
2008	Marcello, sculpteur, une intellectuelle dans l’ombre. La correspondance entre la duchesse Castiglione Colonna, dite Marcello, et le Père Gratry, oratorien (1859-1869) dans la collection Frits Lugt, by Christine Dotal. Ecrits d’artistes de la Collection Frits Lugt, vol. 1. Publication with complete and annotated transcriptions of the letters.
2008	Dessins nordiques des collections Jean Bonna & Frits Lugt. Œuvres choisies Publication with catalogue, under the direction of Mària van Berge-Gerbaud, for the Exposition-Dossier IX, Dessins nordiques des collections Jean Bonna & Frits Lugt. Le Choix d’un collectionneur, held at the Institut Néerlandais, Paris, 27 April – 4 May 2008
2008	Rembrandt Etchings from the Frits Lugt Collection, by Erik Hinterding. Two volumes (vol. I: catalogue; vol. II: illustrations)
2008	Paysages de France dessinés par Lambert Doomer et les artistes hollandais et flamands des XVIe et XVIIe siècles, by Stijn Alsteens and Hans Buijs.With colour illustrations.
2008	Bruegel, Rubens et leurs contemporains. Dessins nordiques du Musée des Offices à Florence, by Bert Meijer [red.] (catalogue of the exhibition held at the Institut Néerlandais, Paris, 1st October – 30th November 2008)
2008	Les arts graphiques : Restauration/Recherche. Journée d'études en l'honneur de Carlo James. In collaboration with the INP (Institut national du patrimoine). Collection of papers based on the presentations made at the symposium organized on 27th May 2005.