L'ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts
Hôtel de Mercy-Argenteau, 16 bis boulevard Montmartre, 75009 Paris
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The exhibition “Stage Jewels of the Comédie-Française” will be open at a later date. Follow us on social media @lecolevancleefarpels
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exposition.ecole@vancleefarpels.com
+33 170 70 37 50
Free admission, by reservation
The exhibition “Stage Jewels of the Comédie-Française” will be open at a later date. Follow us on social media @lecolevancleefarpels
Photo: Diadem of Rachel with cameos, 1821-1858
Shell cameos on golden copper alloy, lining in gold lamé fabric
© Coll. Comédie-Française – Photo: L’ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts – Benjamin Chelly
In partnership with the Comédie-Française, L’ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts will be showcasing stage jewelry worn by the most famous actors and actresses - Talma, Rachel, Sarah Bernhardt... - retracing the history of stage jewelry since the 18th century. Jewelry, paintings, drawings and manuscripts bear witness to the opulence of these objects, which, while often made from non-precious materials, feature their jewelers’ skills.
Curators: Agathe Sanjuan, curator-archivist at the Comédie-Française, and L’ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts.
This book provides the public with an unprecedented look at around 40 of these stage jewels from the Parisian theater, dating from the late eighteenth century to the 1980s, enriched with costumes, graphic works, and archival documents, to understand both their historical and symbolic dimensions.
This encyclopedia lists all of the jewelers in nineteenth-century Paris who crafted jewelry worn by theater performers.
![Rachel’s coral comb, [1838–1858] Comb composed of silver alloy castings forming plant motifs and faceted coral beads © Coll. Comédie-Française – Photo : L’École des Arts Joailliers – Benjamin Chelly](/sites/default/files/styles/paragraph_slider/public/2024-02/48%20-%20Peigne%20en%20corail%20de%20Rachel%20%C2%A9Coll.%20Com%C3%A9die-Fran%C3%A7aise%20%E2%80%93%20Photo%20%20L%E2%80%99%C3%89cole%20des%20Arts%20Joailliers%20%284%29.jpg?itok=EWiVgPOv)
