{"id":1342,"date":"2015-03-13T15:00:19","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T14:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/villavauban.lu\/visiter\/la-collection\/"},"modified":"2016-09-07T10:46:23","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T08:46:23","slug":"la-collection","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/villavauban.lu\/en\/the-museum\/la-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Our collections"},"content":{"rendered":"

The collection<\/strong><\/p>\n

The exhibitions at the Villa Vauban will draw on the collection of the City of Luxembourg, whose focus lies on Dutch painting from the Golden Age (17th century) and 19th-century French history and landscape painting. The collection is further enhanced by European paintings, sculptures and drawings from the 17th to the 19th century.<\/p>\n

The history of the collection<\/strong><\/p>\n

The museum’s collection finds its origins in the 19th century, when Jean-Pierre Pescatore, Leo Lippmann and Eug\u00e9nie Dutreux-Pescatore, three influential local figures, bequeathed their private
\ncollections to their home city. A tobacco merchant before he established himself as a banker in Paris, Jean-Pierre Pescatore (1793 – 1855) devoted his fortune to building up an emblematic collection of art. Like most bourgeois of his time, he collected mainly 17th-century Dutch painting and contemporary French history painting as well as sculptures and drawings.<\/p>\n

The collection of Leo Lippmann (1808 – 1883), a banker and Consul General of Luxembourg in Amsterdam, focused on 19th-century art, more particularly on established history painting.<\/p>\n

The third body of works was bequeathed to the City of Luxembourg in 1903 by Eug\u00e9nie Dutreux-Pescatore (1810 – 1902), who had inherited her collection of 18th-century history paintings, still lifes and portraits from\u00a0 the pharmacist Jodoc Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Hochhertz (\u2020 1786). The character of the collection is thus significantly influenced by these bequests.<\/p>\n

They provide a unique insight into the collecting practice of the upper bourgeoisie during the late 18th and the 19th century and comprise works from the Golden Age of Dutch painting (17th century) by artists such as Cornelis Bega, Gerrit Dou and Jan Steen as well as French history and landscape painting\u00a0 from the 19th century by the likes of Eug\u00e8ne Delacroix, Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier and Jules Dupr\u00e9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The collection The exhibitions at the Villa Vauban will draw on the collection of the City of Luxembourg, whose focus lies on Dutch painting from the Golden Age (17th century) and 19th-century French history and landscape painting. The collection is further enhanced by European paintings, sculptures and drawings from the 17th to the 19th century. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":302,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"page-templates\/collection-page.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"event-type":[],"public-type":[],"page-group":[183],"class_list":["post-1342","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","page-group-musee-en"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/villavauban.lu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/villavauban.lu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/villavauban.lu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/villavauban.lu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/villavauban.lu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1342"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/villavauban.lu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5483,"href":"https:\/\/villavauban.lu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1342\/revisions\/5483"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/villavauban.lu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/villavauban.lu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"event-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/villavauban.lu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event-type?post=1342"},{"taxonomy":"public-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/villavauban.lu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/public-type?post=1342"},{"taxonomy":"page-group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/villavauban.lu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/page-group?post=1342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}