Events

SUMMARY

• What the Association has already accomplished
• Lecture on the Bois-le-Roi Art Collection, July 2^nd 2022
• Forthcoming Forrum of the Bois-le-Roi Associations 2022
• Monique Riccardi-Cubitt’s publications in 2022

What the Association has already accomplished

Thanks to the Founder Chairwoman of the association, Monique Riccardi-Cubitt’s original research since 2018 on Georges Moreau de Tours’s life and work, and further to the publication of her article Le peintre Georges Moreau de Tours (1848-1901) et sa famille entre Paris et Bois-le-Roi, Fontainebleau Revue d’Histoire de la ville et de sa région n°19, mai 2021, Société d’histoire de Fontainebleau et de sa région, Georges Moreau de Tours’s family tomb in Bois-le-Roi cemetery has been restored by the Mairie.

His painting Ptolémée au tombeau d’Alexandre realized for the Concours du Prix de Rome in 1878, in the collection of the Bois-le-Roi Mairie, has been listed under the Historical Monuments Act by decree of the Ministère de la Culture on April 13^th 2021:

“The history painting Ptolémée au tombeau d’Alexandre Moreau de Tours chose to depict in the academic tradition sheds a light on the whole of his artistic ouput.”, according to the case file of the Direction régionale des affaires culturelles d’Île-de-France, following the intervention of Domitille Cès, Conservateur délégué des antiquité et objets d’art de Seine-et-Marne.

Lecture on the Bois-le-Roi Art Collection, July 2^nd 2022

The Association des Amis de Moreau de Tours took part in the celebration of the Syndicat d’Initiative First Anniversary, July 30^th to July 3^rd 2022.

The Founder Chairwoman Monique Riccardi-Cubitt gave a Lecture at the Mairie on the Bois-le-Roi Art Collection on July 2^nd.

Forthcoming Forrum of the Bois-le-Roi Associations 2022

The Association of the Amis de Moreau de Tours will be present at the
forthcoming Forum of the Bois-le-Roi Associations, on Sunday September 4^th 2022, from 2pm to 6pm, at the gymnasium Langenargen, rue Moreau de
Tours.

The Associatios Guide 2022 is available in PDF on the Bois-le-Roi official
website.

Monique Riccardi-Cubitt’s publications in 2022

1^st November 2022 : article in Fontainebleau Revue d’Histoire de la ville et de sa région, N. 21, Bois-le-Roi, Village d’art. Les artistes de la Bohème dans la collection de la mairie

15^th November the book in French : La vie de Bohème à Bois-le-Roi. Art, politique et naturalisme, Éditions le Puits Fleuri, Héricy. English version to follow.

To know more...

• Éditions le Puits Fleuri
• La revue d’histoire de Fontainebleau et de sa région

Attached documents

• Flyer La vie de Bohème à Bois-le-Roi (PDF - 484.3 kb)

  To be published in french 15^th November

• Press release (PDF - 195.2 kb)