Alain Pasquier

Alain Jean Pasquier (born August 1, 1942 in Fontainebleau ) is a French classical archaeologist and for many years the head of the Antiquities Department at the Louvre in Paris. His specialty is ancient plastic.

Alain Pasquier comes from a family of musicians. His father was the violist Pierre Pasquier (1902–1986), Alain's brothers are the violist Bruno Pasquier and the violinist Régis Pasquier .

Alain Pasquier studied Lettres from 1962 at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, one of the Grandes écoles of France. After the Agrégation in 1966, he worked as a teacher at the Lycée Descartes in Rabat , the capital of Morocco, until 1968 . From 1968 to 1969 he was assistant for Greek literature at the University of Bordeaux , from 1969 to 1971 assistant for Greek archeology at the Sorbonne . In 1971 he became a member of the École française d'Athènes , of which he was a member until 1974.

He then began his career in 1974 as a museum curator at the Department of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities of the Louvre in Paris. In 1984 he took over the management of this department as chief curator. In this position he was responsible for the redesign and implementation of the reorganization of this department of the Louvre. In 1988 he became General Inspector of the French Museums (Inspecteur général des musées de France) , a year later General Conservator of Cultural Heritage (Conservateur général du Patrimoine) . In 2007 he retired and received the title of Conservateur général honoraire du Patrimoine. His successor was Jean-Luc Martinez .

Alain Pasquier was responsible for important exhibitions at the Louvre, including Mer Egée - Grèce des Îles (1979, with François Villard ); Eros Grec. Amour des Dieux et des Hommes (1989/90 in the Grand Palais , with Nikolaos Kaltsas ); Euphronios. Peintre à Athènes au VIe siècle av. J.-C. (1990, with Martine Denoyelle ) and the Praxiteles exhibition (2007, with Jean-Luc Martinez).

In addition to his work at the museum, he taught from 1974 to 2008 as a professor of Greek archeology and the history of collections at the École du Louvre . He also taught Greek art at the Rachel Boyer Foundation (1974–1980), Greek ceramics at the Institut français de Restauration des Œuvres d'Art (1978–1986) and at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (1978), Greek sculpture from the Université Paris-Sorbonne (1979) and Greek ceramics at the École supérieure normal in Paris (1995–2007). In 2018 he became President of the Jacquemart-André Foundation at the Institut de France .

Alain Pasquier, corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute and honorary member of the Athens Archaeological Society , has been decorated many times. In addition to the rank of officer in the Orden Palmes académiques as Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (1996), Knight (1997) and Officer (2008) of the Legion of Honor and Officer of the Ordre national du Mérite (2003). In 2003 he became a corresponding member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres and in 2013 a full member .

Publications (selection)

• La Vénus de Milo et les Aphrodites du Louvre . Éditions de la Réunion des musées nationaux, Paris 1985, ISBN 2-7118-0256-6 .
• with Jean-Luc Martinez : 100 chefs-d'œuvre de la sculpture grecque au Louvre . Musée du Louvre Editions, Paris 2007, ISBN 978-2-35031-112-8 .

Web links

• Information on Alain Pasquier in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France , accessed on 19 August 2019.
• Pasquier, Alain on the website of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres