Pourquoi c'est connu ? Le fabuleux destin des icônes du XIXe siècle. Divers Redécouvrant dans ses réserves un

Redécouvrant dans ses réserves un ensemble d'objets textiles qu'il fallut identifier et restaurer

The second part

56 Cannibalisme et recherche scientifique

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Pourquoi c'est connu ? Le fabuleux destin des icônes du XIXe siècle. Divers Redécouvrant dans ses réserves unAt the Muse d'Orsay, we come across visitors who comment on a work by exclaiming: it's famous! What made this artist or that work famous? Why is it famous? The answers are numerous, rich in information, sometimes comical. Some works retain a taste of scandal, considered as breaks, others acclaimed from their creation, have been imitated, reproduced, to the point that they are familiar to us. Some mark the peak of a career or are milestones in the