Chaumet presents Botanical
From 16 June to 4 September 2022, Chaumet invites you to discover Botanical – Observing Beauty with the help of the Beaux Arts de Paris at the Beaux-Arts de Paris. Crossing visions, eras and media, this original exhibition invites us to look at nature through the universal lens of art and beauty.
As the creator of the project, Chaumet drew on its vast heritage, one of the most important in the history of jewellery in Europe, to make its botanical vision resonate with all the art forms that have focused on plants.
L'Épi de Blé Brooch by Chaumet, 2015
The exhibition’s curator, botanist Marc Jeanson, has imagined Botanical as a herbarium, made up of the various species found in Chaumet creations.
Around 400 artworks are an invitation to the public to discover 5,000 years of art and science through a dialogue between paintings, sculptures, textiles, photographs and furniture, together with some 80 jewellery objects from Chaumet and other maisons.
Around 400 artworks are an invitation to the public to discover 5,000 years of art and science through a dialogue between paintings, sculptures, textiles, photographs and furniture, together with some 80 jewellery objects from Chaumet and other maisons.
Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Spring, 1573
© RMN-Grand Palais (musée du Louvre) / Jean-Gilles Berizzi
Paris, Louvre museums, department of Paintings
© RMN-Grand Palais (musée du Louvre) / Jean-Gilles Berizzi
Paris, Louvre museums, department of Paintings
For this exhibition, more than 70 museums, foundations, galleries and private collectors have loaned works : such as the Museum national d’Histoire naturelle, Orsay and Louvre museums, Institut de France, Victoria and Albert Museum, Pistoia Musei, also Musée de l’École de Nancy, Kew Royal Botanical Gardens, Hamburger Kunsthalle and Albion Art Collection in Tokyo, to name but a few.
