Émile Molinier
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Émile Molinier (26 April 18575 May 1906) was a 19th-century French curator and art historian.


Career

Following his elder brother Auguste, Émile Molinier studied at the
École Nationale des Chartes The École Nationale des Chartes (; ) is a French ''grande école'' and a constituent college of Université PSL, specialising in the auxiliary sciences of history, historical sciences. It was founded in 1821, and was located initially at the A ...
. He wrote a thesis on medieval history entitled ''Étude sur la vie d'Ernoul, sire d'Audrehem, maréchal de France'' which earned him the archivist paleographer degree in 1879. He first worked at the before joining the
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, where he served as curator of the newly created art objects department. He published books on stained glass, ceramics, enamels and furniture and organized major exhibitions, including the '' Exposition Rétrospective'' held at the
Petit Palais The (; ) is an art museum in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, France. Built for the Exposition Universelle (1900), 1900 Exposition Universelle ("universal exhibition"), it now houses the City of Paris Museum of Fine Arts (''Musée des beaux-arts ...
in 1900. A specialist of French decorative art, he wrote the first catalog of the
Wallace Collection The Wallace Collection is a museum in London occupying Hertford House in Manchester Square, the former townhouse (Great Britain), townhouse of the Seymour family, Marquess of Hertford, Marquesses of Hertford. It is named after Sir Richard Wall ...
at the time of its opening.E. Molinier, ''La Collection Wallace : meubles et objets d'art français des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles'', Paris : E. Lévy, 1902, 2 vol.


Selected works

*1882
''Chronique normande du XIVe siècle''
(editor, with
Auguste Molinier Auguste Molinier (30 September 185119 May 1904) was a French historian. Biography Born in Toulouse, Auguste Molinier was a student at the École Nationale des Chartes, which he left in 1873, and also at the École pratique des hautes études; an ...
) *1882: ''Catalogue de la collection Timbal'', (in collab.) *1883: ''Étude sur la vie d'Arnoul d'Audrehem, maréchal de France, 1302-1370'' *1883: ''Les Majoliques italiennes en Italie'' *1884: ''Les Della Robbia, leur vie et leur œuvre, d'après des documents inédits, suivi d'un catalogue de l'œuvre des Della Robbia en Italie et dans les principaux musées de l'Europe'', (in collab.) *1885: ''Dictionnaire des émailleurs, depuis le moyen âge jusqu'à la fin du XVIII'', *1886: ''Le Château de Fontainebleau au XVIIe siècle, d'après des documents inédits'', (in collaboration with
Eugène Müntz Eugène Müntz (11 June 1845 – 30 October 1902) was a French art historian who specialized in the Italian Renaissance art. LIfe and career Eugène Müntz was born on 11 June 1845 in Soultz-sous-Forêts, Bas-Rhin. His brother was Achille Münt ...
) *1888: ''La Céramique italienne au XVe siècle'', *1888: ''Le Trésor de la basilique de Saint-Marc à Venise'', *1889
''Venise, ses arts décoratifs, ses musées et ses collections''
*1891: ''L'Émaillerie'', Hachette, series "" *1894: ''Benvenuto Cellini'' *1896
''Catalogue des ivoires''
*1897: ''Histoire générale des arts appliqués à l'industrie du Ve à la fin du XVIIIe siècle'', (codir. Et collab.) *1902: ''Le mobilier français du XVIIe et du XVIIIe'' *1890-1891 ''L'Art. Revue bi-mensuelle illustrée (Director and chief editor)


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Molinier, Emile École Nationale des Chartes alumni French librarians French art historians 1857 births 1906 deaths Writers from Nantes