Pierre Jahan Français, 1909-2003
Le départ du Débarquement de la Reine Marie de Médicis à Marseille, de Rubens, 1939
Photography, vintage gelatin-silver print by the artist
20 × 17.8 cm
Informed by René Huyghe, then chief curator of the Department of Paintings at the Louvre Museum, Pierre Jahan undertook to document the return of masterpieces evacuated during the world war....
Informed by René Huyghe, then chief curator of the Department of Paintings at the Louvre Museum, Pierre Jahan undertook to document the return of masterpieces evacuated during the world war. This photographic series immortalizes the historic re-hanging of collections miraculously preserved from what the photographer would later describe, in his book Objectif, as "the all-powerful Marshal Göring's hunger for art objects."
Provenance
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