The Jules Chéret Fine Arts Museum, the Palais Lascaris, the Masséna Museum, and the Cessole Library present the exhibition “Living for Art: The Trachel and Rothschild Collections in Nice,” highlighting the works generously donated to the City of Nice by these two prominent families. These donations, made between 1888 and 1912, comprise over seventeen hundred works of various types: archaeological objects, drawings, watercolors, paintings, sculptures, prints, as well as furniture, ceramics, and textiles. They form the core of the museums’ collections in Nice.
This project also offers an opportunity to rediscover the thousands of watercolor landscapes in Nice and throughout Europe by the Trachel brothers, Hercule, Dominique, and Antoine, as well as those of Baroness Charlotte de Rothschild, whose teacher and friend was Hercule.
Works and views of the exhibition
“Harlequin” plate depicting a man armed with swords
Circa 1620-1640
Earthenware with polychrome “en plein” decoration
Palais Lascaris, Nice, PL-05-26-35-1 (N.Mba 886-B)
Bequest of Miss Fanny Trachel in 1903
© Photo François Fernandez
Young Man and Old Woman at the Fountain
17th century
Oil on canvas
Jules Chéret Fine Arts Museum, Nice
N.Mba 641
Bequest of Miss Fanny Trachel in 1903
© Photo François Fernandez
The Roman countryside
Between 1847 and 1871
Graphite pencil, watercolor, gouache, and arabic gum highlights on vellum paper
Masséna Museum, Nice, MAH-9770 E
Bequest of Miss Fanny Trachel in 1903
© Photo François Fernandez
Exhibition View at the Fine Arts Museum
Exhibition View at the Fine Arts Museum
Exhibition View at the Fine Arts Museum
Textual Transcription of the Video
This video is a succession of images of artworks and exhibition views: The Trachel and Rothschild collections in Nice
Jules Chéret Museum of Fine Arts Nice
More than 1700 works donated to the museum.
Furniture, ceramics.
Directed by Cédric Scherer and Neoline Prod
Nice 2024. Partner logos of the exhibition.
