Émile Molinier

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Not to be confused with Émile Molinié
Émile Molinier
Born Charles Louis Marie Émile Molinier
26 April 1857
Nantes
Died 5 May 1906(1906-05-05) (aged 49)
Paris
Occupation Curator
Art historian

Émile Molinier (26 April 1857 – 5 May 1906) was a 19th-century French curator and art historian.

Career

Following his elder brother Auguste, Émile Molinier studied at the École Nationale des Chartes. He wrote a thesis on medieval history entitled Étude sur la vie d'Ernoul, sire d'Audrehem, maréchal de France which earned him the archivist paleographer degree in 1879.[1]

He first worked at the Département des Estampes et de la Photographie de la Bibliothèque nationale de France before joining the Louvre, where he served as curator of the newly created art objects department. He published books on stained glass, ceramics, enamels and furniture and organized major exhibitions. A specialist of French decorative art, he wrote the first catalog of the Wallace Collection at the time of its opening.[2]

Selected works

References

  1. École des Chartes, promotion 1879
  2. E. Molinier, La Collection Wallace : meubles et objets d'art français des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, Paris : E. Lévy, 1902, 2 vol.

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