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Tour the Fragonard Museum

Tour the Fragonard Museum

Saturday, March 20, 2010 at 2:00 PM (GMT+0100)

Maisons Alfort, France


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Fragonard

Honoré Fragonard was one of the first medical masters of France, and his extensive collection contains rooms devoted to anatomy and terratology, articulated animal skeletons, as well as exhibits on disease and pathology. The highlight of this extraordinary museum, which openedi n 1766, is by far the écorchés, or "flayed figures" created by the master anatomist.

Fragonard was appointed by Louis XV to be a professor at the first veterinary school in Lyon, and it was there where he began working on his "flayed figures." These écorchés were carefully dissected animals which were posed and mounted using a secret process. While many of his contemporaries were creating artificial anatomical models of wax, ceramic, and plaster, Fragonard spent years preparing hundreds of these écorchés through a very difficult--and to this day secret--process similar to that of plastinisation. Though most of the items were intended to be used as educational tools, some his work is purely artistic.

Join us on Obscura Day, March 20th, for a special tour of the Fragonard, open to only 35 people. Please bring 7 euros to pay at the door.


DETAILS AND DIRECTIONS

We'll be meeting at 2pm at the Musee Fragonard, which is located inside the Ecole Vétérinaire de Maisons-Alfort.

7 euros at the door.

By public transport:

- Métro line 8 (Balard - Créteil) to station : Ecole Vétérinaire de Maisons-Alfort.

- RER D : station Maisons-Alfort / Alfortville

- Bus : Station Ecole Vétérinaire - Lines 24, 103, 104, 107, 125, 78, 325

 

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Saturday, March 20, 2010 at 2:00 PM (GMT+0100)

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Musée Fragonard de Maison Alfort
7 Avenue du Général de Gaulle
94704 Maisons Alfort
France




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