Colbert Gallery

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Colbert Gallery
location
Arrondissement 2.
quarter Vivienne
Beginning 6, rue des Petits-Champs
The End 2, rue Vivienne
morphology
length 83 m
width 5 m
history
Emergence 1827
Coding
Paris 2183

The Galerie Colbert , named after the finance minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert , is a covered shopping arcade with a glass roof from the first half of the 19th century in the 2nd arrondissement in Paris . The gallery was built next to Galerie Vivienne in 1826 as a competitor, but did not have the same success. After the renovation in the 1980s, it was acquired by the Bibliothèque nationale de France , then transferred to the (INHA) and has since housed many art-historical and cultural-historical institutions.

The Colbert Gallery is open to everyone and invites you to admire the magnificent rotunda with the glass dome. At the entrance to the gallery is the Le Grand Colbert brewery restaurant with its Art Nouveau decorations , which are often used for film screenings.

history

Name origin

The Colbert gallery is named after a Hôtel particulier owned by Colbert (formerly Hôtel Bautru ). It was built in 1826 and is connected to the recently created Vivienne Gallery by a corridor. Built according to the plans of the architect J. Billaud, it intensified the competition between the many new luxury shops in the district. In the center of this passage is a glass rotunda , also known as the glass dome or glass dome, which has a diameter of 15 meters. The polychrome painting on the pedestals and columns is reminiscent of Pompeian painting and contrasts strongly with the glass surfaces of the roof and the former shops.

The rotunda in the Colbert Gallery in 1831

Berlioz in the Colbert gallery

On July 29, 1830, Hector Berlioz performed the Marseillaise in front of one of the gallery windows according to his own arrangement . The crowd gathered in the gallery sang along in the choir and the musician passed out.

Existing institutions

The Colbert Gallery in 2011

The following facilities are located in the Colbert Gallery:

The Colbert Gallery also hosts research laboratories and doctoral schools in the field of art history and heritage at several universities and schools in the Ile-de-France region :

activities

Exhibitions

Exhibition from 2008 "Johnny Friedländer, the engraver in his time"

INHA researchers and their teams design and organize several free exhibitions in the Roberto Longhi Hall of the Colbert Gallery each year. Closely linked to the research programs, they aim to highlight library holdings and documentation (festival books, ornamental collections, etc.), to present research on specific topics or to celebrate a significant figure in art history ( André Chastel , Pierre Francastel , Louis Hautecœur , Louis Marin , etc.) ).

Seminars, colloquiums, study days

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location

The Colbert gallery is located between 6, rue des Petits-Champs and 4, rue Vivienne, in a mixed residential and commercial area near the old national library . Bourse is the closest metro station on Line 3 , which crosses Paris from east to west.

Other passages are nearby: Galerie Vivienne ( 2nd arrondissement ), Passage Bourg-l'Abbé (2nd arrondissement) and Passage du Grand-Cerf (2nd arrondissement).

literature

  • Jean-Claude Delorme, Anne-Marie Dubois: Passages couverts parisiens . Parigrams, Paris 2002 (1st edition Paris 1996), ISBN 2-84096-264-0 .
  • Bertrand Lemoine : Les passages couvertes en France . Délégation à l'Action Artistique de la Ville de Paris, Paris 1990, ISBN 2-905118-21-0 .

Web links

Commons : Galerie Colbert  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alain Rustenholz, Les Traversées de Paris , Évreux, Parigramme, September 2006, 647 pp., ISBN 2-84096-400-7 , p. 177.

Coordinates: 48 ° 52 '0.6 "  N , 2 ° 20' 21.7"  E