Musée du Louvre Receives Donation of 100 French Metalwork Pieces from Michel Lacoste
The Musée du Louvre received a donation of one hundred precious metalwork pieces from Michel Lacoste in November 2025. The works date from the 16th to 18th centuries, with one from the 20th century, and demonstrate French techniques in precious metalwork. An exhibition of the pieces alongside the museum’s silver- and ceramic ware opens 26 June 2026 in room 605 of the Department of Decorative Arts and continues through 11 January 2027.
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The gift adds substantially to the Louvre’s 17th-century holdings with pieces from Paris and other French regions and introduces master metalworkers Jean-Baptiste Chéret, Pierre-François Bonnestrenne and Joseph-Théodore Vancombert to the collection for the first time. It also completes series by Nicolas Delaunay, Claude II Ballin, François-Thomas Germain and Jacques-Nicolas Roëttiers. The donation links directly to the museum’s existing Puiforcat collection, most of which entered via Stavros Niarchos after the 1955 auction was cancelled.
- People: Michel Lacoste, Stavros Niarchos, Anne Foray-Carlier
- Museums: Musée du Louvre
- Locations: Paris
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