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Geneviève Lacambre

Geneviève Lacambre (born 1937) is a French honorary general curator of heritage, and has been the Chargée de mission at the Musée d'Orsay.[1]

Geneviève Lacambre

1937 (age 86–87)

French

Career[edit]

Curator at the department of paintings of the Louvre Museum from 1965 to 1979, then at the Musée d'Orsay until 2002.[2] Lacambre has been for seventeen years director of the Musée national Gustave Moreau in Paris, from 1985 to 2002, a specialist of this Symbolist painter.[3] She has published numerous articles and exhibition catalogues on Gustave Moreau and the Symbolists. She authored Gustave Moreau : Maître sorcier (Découvertes Gallimard, 1997) and organised the 1998 exhibition of Moreau at the Grand Palais in Paris before being presented in Chicago and New York.[4] In addition to Symbolism, she also curated an exhibition in 2017 where Japonisme is the theme.[5][6][7]

Author

Geneviève Lacambre

Gustave Moreau : Maître sorcier

Benjamin Lifson

French

312

1997

France

1999

Print (Paperback)

128 pp.

George Sand : Un diable de femme 

Le peuple hébreu : Entre la Bible et l'Histoire 

with and Claire Frèches-Thory, Orsay: Paintings, Editions Scala, 1989

Michel Laclotte

Gustave Moreau : Maître sorcier

Abrams Discoveries

with Marie-Laure de Contenson, Douglas W. Druick, et al. Gustave Moreau: Between Epic and Dream, Art Institute of Chicago, 1999

with Gary Tinterow, Deborah L. Roldán, et al. Manet/Velázquez: The French Taste for Spanish Painting, Metropolitan Museum of Art & Yale University Press, 2002