{"id":613380,"date":"2026-09-27T13:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T13:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/613380\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T13:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T13:16:10","slug":"bowes-museums-new-art-display-pays-homage-to-french-founder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/613380\/","title":{"rendered":"Bowes Museum’s new art display pays ‘homage’ to French founder"},"content":{"rendered":"

A County Durham museum is paying “homage” to its French founder’s routes by bringing in works she would have approved of for its newest exhibition.<\/p>\n

The Bowes Museum in Barnard Castle has linked up with a museum in Le Havre for Impressions of Light, featuring a number of impressionist paintings never before been seen in the UK.<\/p>\n

The display also highlights the links between the museum’s founders, John Bowes and his Parisian wife Josephine<\/a>, and the French art world.<\/p>\n

The museum said the exhibition, which will run until 14 March, involved a detailed planning operation to secure all necessary permissions and logistical arrangements, with specialist art couriers transporting the works.<\/p>\n

The exhibition brings together 60 works from Bowes’ collection and the Mus\u00e9e d’Art Moderne Andr\u00e9 Malraux (MuMa), in Le Havre.<\/p>\n

Bowes Museum’s executive director Hannah Fox said: “It doesn’t simply create a dialogue between our two museums, it restores a connection between two worlds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A County Durham museum is paying “homage” to its French founder’s routes by bringing in works she would…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":613381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-613380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}