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Michel Laclotte (
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, 27 October 1929 –
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, 10 August 2021) was a French
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and
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, specialising in 14th and 15th century Italian and French painting.


Early life and education

Laclotte's father, Pierre was a lawyer who died in 1940 fighting in the Second World War. His mother, Hugette (de Kermabon) took Michele and his sister to occupied Paris in 1941. He attended the
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, then studied at the Sorbonne and the École du Louvre, and while still a student, began working at the museum as an intern in 1951. In 1952, he was appointed to lead a team to catalog works of art recovered or repatriated from looting during the war.


Career

His first position was as from 1952, where was his mentor. In 1965 he was appointed by Culture Minister
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as the chief curator of the paintings department of the
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, which opened in 1976. He was involved in the
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project from its inception in 1981, and defended the design choice of the
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. He was subsequently appointed the Louvre's Director in 1987, and in 1992 became the first of the newly created , a position he held until his retirement in 1994. He also directed the journal between 1988 and 1991. Laclotte was also instrumental in the creation of France's Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art from 1995 to 2002, and led one of the new institute's main research projects, a catalogue of Italian paintings in French public collections, following its establishment in 2001.


Main publications

*''Histoires de musées: Souvenirs d'un conservateur'' (Scala, 2003) . English translation, ''A Key to the Louvre: Memoirs of a Curator'' (Abbeville, 2004) . *''L'art e l'esprit de Paris'' (SEUIL, 2003) . English translation, ''The Art and Spirit of Paris'' (Abbeville, 2003) *''L'école d'Avignon'' (Flammarion, 1983) . He was also a contributor to many books on the history of painting, including * ''Exposition de peinture hollandaise provenant ... du Musée du Louvre'' (exposition, musée de Tourcoing, décembre 1953), Tourcoing : Musée, 1953 * ''De Giotto à Bellini : les primitifs italiens dans les musées de France'' (exposition, Paris, musée de l'Orangerie, 1956), Paris: Éditions des Musées nationaux, 1956 * (avec Ch. Sterling, O. Raggio, S. Béguin) ''Exposition de la collection Robert Lehman'' (Paris, musée de l'Orangerie, 1957), Paris: Éd. des musées nationaux, 1957 * (préface de A. Blunt) ''The Age of Louis XIV'' (exposition, Londres, Royal Academy of arts, 1958), London: Royal Academy of arts, 1958 * ''Le XVIIe siècle français. Chefs-d'œuvre des musées de province'', Paris: Les Presses artistiques, 1958 * ''L'Ecole d'Avignon: la peinture en Provence aux XIVe et XVe siècles'', Paris: Gonthier-Seghers, 1960 * ''Trésors de la peinture espagnole: églises et musées de France'' (exposition, Paris, musée des Arts décoratifs, janv.–avr. 1963), Paris: Ministère d'État Affaires culturelles, 1963 * ''Primitifs français'', Paris: Hachette
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* ''Ingres'' (exposition, Paris, musée du Petit Palais, 27 octobre 1967–29 janvier 1968), Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1967 * ''Musée du Louvre. Peintures'', Paris: Flammarion, 1969 * (dir.) ''Dictionnaire des grands peintres'', Paris: Larousse, 1970. Rééd. 1983, 1989, 1991. * ''Avignon, Musée du Petit Palais: peinture italienne'', Paris: Éditions des Musées nationaux, 1976 * (avec S. Béguin et C. Ressort) ''Retables italiens du XIIIe au XVe siècle'' (exposition, Paris, Musée national du Louvre, 14 octobre 1977–15 janvier 1978), Paris : Réunion des musées nationaux, 1978 * (avec J.-P. Cuzin) ''Petit Larousse de la peinture'', Paris: Larousse, 1979 * (avec J.-P. Cuzin) ''Le Louvre: la peinture européenne'', Paris: Éditions Scala, 1982 * (avec D. Thiébaut) ''L'École d'Avignon'', Paris : Flammarion, 1983 * (collectif) ''Dictionnaire de la peinture'', Paris : Larousse, 1987. Rééd. 1989, 1993, 1996, 1999, 2003 * (avec J.-P. Cuzin et S. Ottani Cavina), ''Mélanges en hommage à Pierre Rosenberg: peintures et dessins en France et en Italie, XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles'', Paris: Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 2001 * (avec M. Phéline) ''L'art et l'esprit de Paris'', Paris : Seuil, 2003 * ''Histoires de musées : Souvenirs d'un conservateur'', Paris: Scala, 2003 * ''Mantegna à Mantoue'', coll. « Découvertes Gallimard Hors série », Paris: Gallimard, 2008 * (collectif) ''Figures de la réalité : caravagesques français, Georges de La Tour, les frères Le Nain...'', Paris: Hazan-INHA, 2010 *''Dictionnaire de la peinture'' from Éditions Larousse ()


See also

* Charles Sterling *
André Chastel André Chastel (15 November 1912, Paris – 18 July 1990, Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a French art historian, author of an important work on the Renaissance, Italian Renaissance. He was a professor at the Collège de France, where he held the chair of ...
*
Pierre Rosenberg Pierre Max Rosenberg (born 13 April 1936) is a French art historian, curator, and professor. Rosenberg is the honorary president a director of the Musée du Louvre in Paris, and since 1995, he has held the 23rd seat of the Académie Française. ...
*
Henri Loyrette Henri Loyrette (born 31 May 1952 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, a suburb of Paris) was the chairman of Admical, a French organisation dedicated to corporate philanthropy., and the former director of the Louvre Museum (2001–2013). He became first curato ...


References


External links

*
The André Malraux Foundation
{{DEFAULTSORT:Laclotte, Michel 1929 births 2021 deaths French art historians Directors of the Louvre French male non-fiction writers 20th-century French historians 20th-century French male writers 21st-century French historians 21st-century French male writers Lycée Henri-IV alumni Paris-Sorbonne University alumni École du Louvre alumni Writers from Saint-Malo