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These vintage canvases resurface toulouse:
Holidays lying over several meters on the ground, works in a pitiful state and especially unknown. Moreover, Since the beginning of the summer. Furthermore, many visitors to the Toulouse Jacobins Convent have been asking a question: what are these paintings on display in the church refectory? Nevertheless, The answer to this mixture unknown local history et rarity exceptional artistic. Nevertheless, We explain why.
Forgotten canvases for 70 years – These vintage canvases resurface toulouse
The paintings deposited under the gaze of all since early July were painted by the Toulouse artist Paul Gervais. Consequently, between the second half of the 19th centurye A century and the beginning of the First World War, a these vintage canvases resurface toulouse period also nicknamed “The Belle Epoque”.
“I found these canvases which had never been unrolled in 70 years. Therefore, which were formerly at the Boulevard de Strasbourg, in Toulouse, ”explains Pierre Catalo, conservation manager at the Jacobins convent.
More specifically. these paintings were at the Café Sion, an establishment mainly frequented by the Toulouse bourgeoisie of the “Belle Époque”. After the disappearance of coffee. the works had been stored in the basement of the Jacobins convent, Before being forgotten for decades.
Rare remains of the past
Today. there is “a fairly gloomy passage” only on the site of these vintage canvases resurface toulouse the old Café Sion, says Pierre Catalo. The only remains of this historic place of life in the pink city are rarity. “These canvases are the only existing heritage sets,” adds the curator.
Making them known in everyone’s eyes was therefore an opportunity to highlight A little -known part of the. history of Toulouse. “This is a period when the industry is flourishing. Toulouse will follow the trend of major Haussmann type works, there was need to entertain the bourgeoisie,” says Pierre Catalo.
Invite the public behind the scenes of the conservation
Unrolling these pieces of art to the eyes. of the general public was also a way to take visitors behind the scenes of the Jacobins Convent. Until September 28, guided tours allow spectators to understand why the fabrics are today in a deplorable state. “There are parts that have disintegrated because they had been placed these vintage canvases resurface toulouse near a heating source,” illustrates Pierre Catalo.
At the end of September, the paintings will be wrapped again, this time in better conservation conditions. They will not be restored for lack of budget, but a reconditioning could take place to restore them. “If we had not unrolled them this year. The canvases may never have been reopened ”says the curator of these local history jewelry.
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