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Post by Bownarrow on Jun 22, 2022 10:05:10 GMT -5
I was looking at vintage postcards depicting Poussin’s Les Bergers d’Arcadie when I came across one(Delcampe- Item n° #1533747502) that was captioned as:
Musee Conde (Chantilly) - Francaise
1337 - Poussin( Nicolas) (1594-1665) Les Bergers d’Arcadie
I do not know whether this is simply a mistake. As far as I am aware Les Bergers d’Arcadie has always been at the Louvre since leaving the collection of King Louis XIV.
Can anyone explain this caption?
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Post by rubyfelixir on Mar 11, 2023 9:22:48 GMT -5
It does seem odd, as you can't go to Chantilly to see that painting, so the postcard would advertise or commemorate a visit to a museum to see a painting at that museum, that the museum does not have. It would be like the Musee du Louvre having a postcard of Poussin's painting 'Le Massacre des Innocents', a painting that was never in the Louvre, but in London, and now permanently at the Musee Conde, since 1886.
The majority of such postcards for Les Bergers d'Arcadie are marked 'Musee du Louvre'. Those rare postcards that are not, are marked 'Musee Conde'.
A postcard that is sold by a museum, with the museum's name on the postcard, of an art-work that it does not have, would be false advertising. Imagine seeing this postcard, and then traveling all the way to Chantilly to see a painting that it did not have. Researchers declare that there is no record of Fr. Sauniere visiting Paris at the time that the legend claims that he did. Perhaps then, he went to Chantilly?
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Post by Bownarrow on Apr 8, 2023 10:53:25 GMT -5
I wondered whether it had been lent to the Musee Conde at some time at around the turn of the century, but have not been able to find any evidence of such a loan.
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Post by rubyfelixir on Apr 11, 2023 1:19:08 GMT -5
In 1861, the Musee Conde bought the entire collection of drawings that was owned by Frederic Reiset, the curator of the Louvre Museum. The collection consisted of 381 drawings done by historically important painters. One-hundred of those drawings were by Nicolas Poussin.
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Post by rubyfelixir on Apr 11, 2023 1:26:57 GMT -5
It could be that the two art-museums loaned each other, in an exchange, their most famous Poussin art-work, for a period of time. A swap of the Conde's 'Le Massacre des Innocents' for the Louvre's 'Les Bergers d'Arcadie'? Are there postcards by The Louvre that depict a painting by Poussin that they do not own, but that the Conde does?
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Post by rubyfelixir on Apr 11, 2023 17:26:07 GMT -5
Administrator, I thought that the MARANATHA book and the treasure-hunt had been SOLVED. A PDF solution to the book's puzzle was released by the company's director.
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Post by Jenny on Apr 11, 2023 19:03:35 GMT -5
Administrator, I thought that the MARANATHA book and the treasure-hunt had been SOLVED. A PDF solution to the book's puzzle was released by the company's director. Always a cat. Lots of mystery remains......and unsolved.... Like how was the number found? Never explained. |
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Post by Bownarrow on Apr 12, 2023 9:02:20 GMT -5
Administrator, I thought that the MARANATHA book and the treasure-hunt had been SOLVED. A PDF solution to the book's puzzle was released by the company's director. I think it is stretching things beyond what is credible to say that the treasure-hunt has been solved. All that has happened is that someone who claimed to be part of a team who created the puzzle has posted an explanation that was called “the solution”. The fact that “the solution” did not make any sense or explain anything means that it falls into the same category as Philippe de Cherisey’s confessions of being the creator of the parchments - it’s meaningless. |
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Post by rubyfelixir on Apr 12, 2023 10:48:28 GMT -5
You mean that it didn't mention MARY?
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Post by astree on Apr 12, 2023 11:11:20 GMT -5
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Thank you, Jenny and bownarrow. I believe you are correct.
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Post by rubyfelixir on Jun 9, 2023 10:47:00 GMT -5
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