ARTnimaux ! Domestique de la ferme

One exhibition, one day each month, thirty minutes, one animal family leading to the works!
Animals are at the heart of the museum's concerns this year, so it's only natural that they should lead curious visitors to the works that represent them. Moving from one animal to another, the animal families will provide an opportunity for artistic and eclectic discoveries... This month, the DOMESTIC FARM ANIMALS are our tour guides, so follow them!
Hello "calf, cow, pig, brood" to paraphrase the great author of the Fables that no French schoolchild can ignore! Add the sheep and the farm is complete. As far back as 10,000 years ago, the domestication of animals that led to the various forms of livestock rearing by mankind pursued several subsistence objectives: the exploitation of meat, milk, skins, wool and labour. This is how cattle, pigs, goats and other gallinaceous animals came to join man in his daily life and helped him to evolve. It's a symbiotic relationship that has necessarily given many artists the opportunity to sketch them (artistically this time!) from every angle over the centuries of coexistence.
From meadows to stables, from barnyard to pigsty, we'll meet the sheep of Rosa Bonheur and Fernand Chalandre, the cows of Jules-Emile Zingg, the cockerels of Henri Varenne and Jean Monchougny and the pigs of Benjamin Rabier... We'll be bringing together a truly diverse artistic farm, from an icon of animal art to an engraver from Nevers, from contemporary artists to a children's illustrator!
The Musée de la Loire invites you to join us for a cultural and artistic lunch break. If you've got nothing else to do, and you're not afraid of getting a little goaty... then why not join us? Then join us, and if we can't make you swallow any more snakes, we'll do our best to fill you with wonder every month when you see the most beautiful animal representations in our exhibition!