Resumen de Microhistoire des processus de patrimonialisation: les impressionnistes exposés à l'Orangerie
Micro-history of the process of becoming national heritage: the Impressionist exhibited at the Orangerie.
Between 1930 and 1937, the "Réunion des musées nationaux" organized, in the rooms of the Orangerie, seven one man show exhibitions dedicated to painters tied, for at least a part of their careeers, to the Impressionist movement: Pissarro (1930), Monet (1931), Manet (1932), Renoir (1933), Cézanne (1936) and Degas (1931 and 1937). These retrospective exhibitions, conceived by their organizers as a tool for the development of a "national" art would have been unimaginable without a wide international system of loans and exchanges of works.
While we tend to associate the construction of national heritage with the procedures of nationalization of culture, the study of the complex transactions between the institutions of museums, which preside over loans and therefore over the grouping together of works in Paris, leads to the measure of the impact of the internationalization of objects and the multitude of their movements on the fabrication of their value, their place in history, and their inscription in the ensemble of the identity linked property that is national heritage.
