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“Louvre Couture” hard for Americans to say, but not @danielroseberry, the creative director @schiaparelli
He has made a lasting impression now at the Louvre with a work inspired by Gaston Lachaise on loan to the Tuileries.

On the first floor of the Richelieu wing this show mixes couture, ready-to-wear, and accessories from 1949 to the present with rather older decorative objects from precious gilded reliquaries to rich woven tapestries.
In the last room dedicated to the Middle Ages, there is a giant, so lovely, wearing a Schiaparelli wool crepe suit. She is from the “Inferno” haute couture collection by Schiaparelli, spring 2023. She is Lachaise’s “Woman” with a capital W.

“Louvre couture” the pinnacle of art, history, fashion, culture, & craftsmanship. Through 24 August 2025

Schiaparelli is just one of 45 houses and designers. Daniel Roseberry pushes the boundaries of the fashion world as Lachaise did the boundaries of his art world of the 1920s/30s.

Watch the designer show us the sculpture in the Tuileries, which is on loan from the @lachaise_Foundation
Taken from Vogue’s A Day in the Life of Fashion Designer Daniel Roseberry.

The Lachaise foundation is grateful to all those at the Louvre for their curation of the Tuileries—Marie-Laure Bernadac, in 2008 and Emmanuelle Heran today.

@laurence_des_cars, the first female president of the Louvre, spoke not long ago @thefourarts. Did she mention this show as part of her vision for the “Next Century At The Louvre”? 💡💫

@olivier_gabet, the director of the Louvre’s decorative arts department also deserves credit as another mastermind behind this brilliant display.

Vogue’s A Day in the Life of Roseberry. 1 Feb 2023
Director: Nikki Petersen
Director of Photography: Pierre Wrobel
Editor: Evan Allan

Sculpture created by “Monsieur Carel”

Photo: @museelouvre / Nicolas Bousser #gastonlachaise #louvrecouture #danielroseberry taken in Musée du Louvre by @lachaise_foundation

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Pairing original garments with breathtaking artworks.
As the @metmuseum‘s Curator in Charge of @metcostumeinstitute, Andrew Bolton connects dress (or lack of dress) with the body. Striking, brave, and pan-everything, some pairings are marvelous & the show “doubles as a museum tour in miniature.”
*Cycladic figure from 4500-4000 BCE near Melitta Baumeister’s dress (FW ’22) with rippling Venus of Willendorf pattern. Oh good fortune of fashion, as I stood admiring did I happen to hear a pretty voice tell her companions, “I know because I sewed it.”
*The Ptolomaic Omphale or “Baubo” with Alessandro Michele’s Gucci “Womb dress” (Cruise 2020) embroidered with fallopian tubes, (“Baubo” being the nursemaid of Demeter, who famously made her unconsolable mistress laugh by exposing her private parts thus symbolizing the healing nature of the female sex.)
*The pairing of Rei Kawakubo of @commedesgarcons curvy felted creations with sculptures by Henry Moore, Jean Arp, Max Weber (which burst from darkness during Black Lives Matter) and Hans Bellmer; Michaela Stark’s blush-colored corset with a Worcester corset from 1876.
And…finally #GastonLachaise’s La Montagne (owned by Stieglitz and dispersed after his death by widow Georgia) with @KarolineVitto’s custom chestnut brown ensemble (SS 25 collection).

I love that some of the mannequins were modeled after real people, representing diverse body types, eg. that of French model and singer #Yseult (corpulent body) and activist #SinéadBurke, who has dwarfism, and wears #burberry (disabled body)
And I love Lachaise’s sculpture. But to me the work is one of infinite, timeless, size-less beauty. To typecast it as “fat” or “corpulent,” to relegate it to a body type is to rein one’s understanding of the essence of the work, of the giant female spirit inspiring it.
Lachaise wrote to Isabel, who worried about aging, “you know I will love you for all the ugliness you might have, it will be beauty.”

PS Mme #Geoouzounoff: the dressmaker to Abby Rockefeller, Georgia O’Keeffe and Rebecca Salsbury Strand; portrait by Lachaise, 1932 deaccessioned by MoMA in 2024.

“Costume Art” runs through Jan. 10, 2027
Video Courtesy @voguemagazine taken in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York by @lachaise_foundation

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Lachaise has joined #WethePeople an exhibit @raynhamhall in which local artists reflect on the evolving meaning of the Constitution’s preamble “We the people,” on the #250th anniversary of the US(1).
For "Welcoming the People" aka "Behold the Peoples," & "The Melting Pot," Lachaise was asked to reflect on this very question. He told his niece, Mrs. C. Oliver Wellington, that 1935 was the happiest year of his life, in part because he was one of five sculptors selected to design a monument honoring Ellen Phillips Samuel (1849-1913)(2). The sculpture garden is located along the East bank of the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia just north of the famous Boathouse Row in Fairmount Park. Ellen hoped to represent the history of the United States in sculpture: 13 sculptors chosen over a 30-year period. Lachaise represents oppressed people being welcomed to the USA.
His original plaster model design has two figures flanking a central pillar (Mesopotamian Warka vase/ornate beer stein). The ¼ scale bronze model is @philamuseumart(3). The man and woman can be who you imagine. Adam? Eve? A reviewer in '35 said the Lachaise woman figure reminded one of Maillol.
The peoples are abundant.
Can you find: a feather headdress from one of the Great Plains tribes (Lakota/Sioux, Comanche, Blackfeet, Crow, Arapaho, Cheyenne, or Mandan) possibly chief Mató-Tóope, “Four Bears”? (4,5) an Inuit qulittaq and pualuuk; an African-American couple; a Victorian cravat; a gentleman’s walking stick; wooden sabots; Hanfu and Hufu clothing; a Chinese scholar’s headdress; an imperial robe w/frog closures; a fan, an apron skirt; a dirndl; a bodice; a bustle; a pair of Breton bragou-braz; a wimple; a skaut; a kokoshnik or wheel bonnet; a phrygian cap, which, though ancient, became an emblem of freedom associated with the French and American Revolutions.
How about a divine Buddhist deity?
A woman’s back? #gastonlachaise ❤️the female torso and stems frm Rodin (6,7)
Joyful to celebrate the peoples but sobering amidst the destruction of the Canadian wildfires 🔥
Other artists: @barbaraprey @rebecccalawtonflatters thank you @hcgerard Jessica & Theresa. #scavengerhunt. TY @jessicachaohwang for your research taken in Raynham Hall Museum by @lachaise_foundation

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To honor the 250th anniversary of the United States, The Melting Pot (also titled Welcoming the Peoples) by Gaston Lachaise, celebrates all peoples!

Lachaise told a friend that 1935 was the happiest year of his life: in part because he was one of 5 sculptors selected to design the Ellen Phillips Samuel memorial monument at Fairmount Park, Philadelphia. His sculpture, to occupy a pedestal in the central terrace of Fairmount Park was called The Melting Pot (or Behold the Peoples or Welcoming The Peoples). It represents a man and woman standing, and making welcome gestures. Between them is a column depicting a variety of immigrants from a variety of backgrounds, cultures and religious practices, each with a different costume, immigrants who make up the rich mixture of our nation today.
Lachaise himself was an immigrant from France who found, as he wrote in 1919, "the soil the most fertile for the continuity of Art--IS HERE." (Lachaise preface, "Modern Sculptures" Bourgeois Galleries, NY, 1919) Can you see a French costume or hat? No? Come in person to peruse the panoply of peoples!

There are images of oppressed peoples from all lands, from the indigenous Plains Indians to the Inuit people in Alaska to black people, to emperors from distant lands like China, Cambodia, and India, to the early Dutch merchants, and Jewish settlers, and others, possibly Hindu or Quaker.
Melting Pot never had more meaning with this weather! Happy hot 250th America!

* The Fairmount Park Art Association now @assocpublicart, was the first private, nonprofit public art organization in the United States dedicated to integrating public art and urban planning.

The @philamuseumart has the only bronze cast of the work, a quarter-scale model, while the Foundation is now owns the original plaster model. Look for it imminently on view @raynhamhall in Oyster Bay.

#250thanniversary #independenceday2026 #immigrants #gastonlachaise #thislandisyourland #woodyguthrie taken in United States America by @lachaise_foundation

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Paris Paris 2026 AUDIO UP🎶 for Josephine Baker, Ravel, Bach & … yes, Calder!

“Nuit Blanche,” an all-night open-air art festival.

Eiffel’s “Livre d’or,” with sig.s of counts, princes and queens visiting the tower in 1889 —>: the Prince and P’cess of Wales; Queen Isabella of Spain; M. de Vogüé; the embassy of Zanzibar; M. Ephrussi; M. Charcot; Marg. Princess of Prussia; kings of Sweden, Greece and Belgium; Prince Hirohito of Japan; Sarah Bernhardt, Thomas Edison, etc.

Brilliant lecture on the Tuileries gardens by @emmanuelle_heran and Jan Synowiecki @museelouvre, the Louvre, where Lachaise’s mother was told Lachaise and Isabelle met.

Hailstorm 6/9/26 at Café de Beaubourg by the Pompidou. NB: salles de bain

Exhibits included one of Female power, imagination and resolve #LeonoraCarrington @luxembourgpalace. Isabel said this is where she met Lachaise.
And Calder @fondationlv which hosted performances by the @balletpreljocaj set to Bach, Ravel and Shostakovich.

Lachaise and Calder overlapped in exhibitions at MoMA (1930) and Chicago (1932). They may or may not have been friendly after A. Stirling Calder, dropped and broke two works by Lachaise, this just after both artists completed works for the Villa Vizcaya in Miami.

Public exhibition: the wrapping of the Pont Neuf by @jr. Sadly damaged by hailstorm.

The magnificent @museecluny is where Hartley said Isabel met Lachaise. Such a romantic setting for one of the great love stories in the history of art.💕
Outside the unicorns room are quotes which convey all the magic and serenity of this woman and her beast:
“Et parleray des six sens, cinq dehors et ung dedans qui est le cuer.” (J. Gerson, 1402).

“Ce sont des femmes sur des îles: une grande solitude féminine…” (#yannickhaenel 2005) plus a beauty by Rilke.

#rêverenéquilibre #calder #franckjoubin #jeanloupchampion #fondationlouisvuitton #balletpreljocaj #gastonlachaise #tuileries #jardinsdestuileries #emmanuelleheran #rodin #michelangelo #nuitblanche #nuitblanche2026 #toureiffel #eiffeltower #gustaveeiffel #archivesdeparis #antoinebourdelle #museedorsay #pontneuf #JR #louvre #paris #leonoracarrington
#josephinebaker #unicorns #museecluny taken in Paris, France by @lachaise_foundation

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The extraordinary genius of Marcel Duchamp set out in the exhibition @themuseumofmodernart by Matthew Affron, Michelle Kuo & @ann.temkin inspired me to look at ways in which Duchamp and Lachaise overlapped as independently audacious artists, from the #1913armoryshow (slide 2) to the #Stettheimerdollhouse (slide 3) to the @museecourbet in 2014 (slide 11). #MarcelDuchamp (1887-1968) & #GastonLachaise (1882-1935) had vastly different approaches to art, yet each played a key role in the development of Modernism and avant-garde art in the USA. See slides of text (slides 5-9) for more. @museedartmodernedeparis. *****************************************Both were French-born *Both were connected to Isadora Duncan in 1909--Lachaise went to see her dance in Boston, while Isadora Duncan purchased a work by Duchamp out of the 1909 Salon D'Automne *Both were included in the Armory show of 1913. *Duchamp hung (besides Lachaise) two works by his wife, (pseudonym Mrs. Ysabel Cyr) and step son *Both were directors of the Society of Independent Artists. *Both were included in the Autumn 1920 issue of The Little Review, (M. Anderson/J. Heap) an issue devoted to Lachaise's sculptures and which included one famous and provocative photograph of Duchamp's portrait sculpture of #BaronessElsavonFreytagLoringhoven (decorated with ink by the Baroness herself) creating a direct editorial link between Lachaise's sculptural sensibilities and the radical New York Dada movement championed by the magazine. *****************************************Both were friends of the Stettheimers, being both included in Florine's paintings and represented in Carrie's iconic dollhouse @museumofcityny. *MOST IMPORTANTLY some might say, Both touted the intelligence and liberty of the American Woman. taken in MoMA The Museum of Modern Art by @lachaise_foundation

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@carmen.bambach has presented a ravishing exhibition:
Sublime poetry: Raphael.

I attended the opening Monday, invited by a dear friend from DC (e da Venezia). Raphael (1483-1520) paints pure poetry. The lenders astounding, listed on the wall: il Borghese; le Louvre; gli Uffizzi; the Vatican; Albertina; Prado; Budapest MFA, and Capodimonte to name a few of the 62.

1. Portrait of a Young Woman with a Unicorn, 1505-6 from @galleriaborgheseufficiale, a betrothal portrait recalling the ideals of beauty and the poetry of Petrarch(1304-1374). “The unicorn… a symbol of love and chastity.” Maybe it is “Laura Orsini della Rovere (1492-1530/31) whose family emblem was the unicorn and whose mother was Giulia Farnese, mistress of Pope Alexander VI.”

2. Arch det. Evoking the Palazzo Ducale of Urbino

3. Mary Magdalen, ca. 1503, Private C.

4. The Procession to Calvary, c. 1504-5, @nationalgallery. Reunited with the Met’s Colonna Altarpiece for the first time since the 1660s. J. P. Morgan, whose Memorial as you enter the museum Lachaise carved for Manship, bought the central pntg for 2,000,000 francs, called the most expensive painting ever to cross the ocean.

5. The stunning Leonardan Esterházy Madonna ca. 1508 so named for the 18th c Hungarian prince who once owned it, from Budapest (@szepmuveszeti)

6. Polyhymnia, ca. 1511-12, the muse of sacred hymns and poetry, represented in the Parnassus. This the only surviving “auxiliary cartoon” for the frescoes in the Stanza della Segnatura in the Vatican, Rome.
Plus … Donatello, school of,
Luca Signorelli, whose Madonna and Child was likely “a gift for his daughter, Gabriella, who gave birth to a child just a year after her own mother died.”

Flemish tapestry after a copy of a cartoon by Raphael. The Miraculous Draft of the Fishes, late 1540s/ early 1550s. “Henceforth you will be catching men.”
With Margaret💕by @ngadc’s Tondo.
#raphael @metmuseum #sublime poetry taken in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York by @lachaise_foundation

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Happy birthday Gaston Lachaise (1882-1935) born 144 years ago today. He came to America from Paris, following an American woman.
She, a beautiful, intellectual, most mostly unpublished poet named Isabelle Dutaud Nagle, was ten years his senior and would become his lifelong muse.
In a letter to her dated 1914:
I kiss your breasts with a fluttering that speaks to them of the hour soon to come keeping them warm and somnolent. I kiss your two feet in a long kiss the way I kissed your forehead, my love.” *

He was, as Rodin told Bourdelle, sculptor and poet at the same time.

Don’t miss the most recent scholarly article written on Lachaise and published in Translatlantica by @fr.joubin of the @museerodinparis “Gaston Lachaise en préhistoire”.

*…et baise tes seins d’un effleurement qui leur parle d’heure bientôt les garde tiede et somnolent. Je baise tes deux pieds longuement comme je l’ai baisé ton front. Mon aimée.” The letter is at @beineckelibrary and you can see work by him at @yaleartgallery English translation by Phyllis Samitz Cohen. by @lachaise_foundation

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Don't miss Howard Gardiner Cushing at the Newport Art Museum. Thru May 31, 2026. I went to hear Alexandra Cushing Howard and Fiona Irving Donovan speak about their ancestors' friendship and work. Reviewing their talk, I made a few connections with Lachaise. Not only was Gertrude a patron, not only did Cushing and Lachaise and Gertrude all overlap in exhibitions, not only did Lachaise, like Gertrude, make reliefs of the Red Cross, for the 1919 Victory Arch in NYC, not only did Lachaise also depict Ruth St. Denis, but the traveling exhibit of his sculptures and drawings opened at the home of Hendrik Christian Anderson in Rome! #howardgardinercushingreview #newportartmuseum #AlexandraHoward #FionaDonovan #AnArtisticFriendshipGertrudeandHoward #AHarmonyofLineandColor #RicardoMercado #ruthstdenis #gastonlachaise @flora.newport @gardinerhousenpt taken in Newport Art Museum by @lachaise_foundation

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I love this new text panel at @brooklynmuseum. There is much research to be done on Isabel, a beautiful intellectual poet and partner of #gastonlachaise. Is "FUPA" really a thing? Text if you have one/know someone who does/or have even heard of it. Do we all have one? #lachaise #FUPA #voluptuous taken in Brooklyn Museum by @lachaise_foundation

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Thank you Michael for inviting me to hear @kerryjamesmarshall_ speak about his unique practice of connoisseurship as he explores objects from the Met Collection. (And other collections, TY @jmrnyc1!)
I’ll never look at Wyeth’s #christinasworld without hearing his no nonsense voice and interesting analysis, the “vertical thrust”
I loved meeting Cheryl and Kerry James Marshall.
#MICHAELANDJULIETRUBENSTEINLECTUREONCONNOISSEURSHIP taken in The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium by @lachaise_foundation

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“SO GASTON LACHAISE HAD ONE GOD. And it was a woman, his wife.” - Louise Bouregois

Isabel Dutaud Nagle Lachaise survives — nearly eighty years after her passing — in the thousands of drawings, sculptures, photographs, and letters that fill an intimate room at 45 Rockefeller Center.

Her likeness lives everywhere: in portfolios, drawers, binders, and shelves. It hangs on walls and sits atop cabinets and cupboards. Isabel’s portrait—painted by the German-born artist Ernest Fiene—overlooks the room. In front of it, a small statuette of Isabel reclining, a Spanish comb threaded through her hair, perches like an echo. Together, the pair form a kind of “dual Isabel.” That “dual Isabel” is only a glimpse. Inside the Foundation, she isn’t doubled—she’s multiplied.

The woman whose will ensured the preservation of her husband’s work through the creation of the Lachaise Foundation is, in turn, preserved within its walls.

GUEST POST BY JAKE SHEYKHET
@jake_sheykhet_art by @lachaise_foundation

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