Sylvie Patin (born Sylvie Gache-Patin on 11 June 1951) is a French conservator-restorer of cultural heritage at Musée d'Orsay and art historian specialised in Impressionism.[1]
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Born | Sylvie Gache-Patin (1951-06-11) June 11, 1951 (age 71) |
Nationality | French |
Alma mater | Paris Nanterre University, École du Louvre |
Occupation | conservator-restorer |
Website | sylviepatin |
Sylvie Patin was born on 11 June 1951. She has a degree in historical geography and a master's degree in history at the Paris Nanterre University, then she joined École du Louvre to continue her study.[2]
She did a museum internship at the Musée Marmottan Monet in 1972 and passed the competitive examination of the musées de France in 1973. From 1974 to 1975, she was a trainee curator at Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume and Musée de l'Orangerie, then a full-time curator from 1976 to 1980. She became curator of the Musée d'Orsay in 1980, chief curator in 1991, and finally a general curator in 2006.[1] She retired in 2016.[3]
In 2010, Patin curated an exhibition of Monet at the Grand Palais.[4] She has published several books on the impressionist painter Claude Monet, such as Le Musée intime de Monet à Giverny (2016),[5] a book presents the study of Monet's garden and house in Giverny;[6] and Monet : « un œil... mais, bon Dieu, quel œil ! » (1991), a copiously illustrated pocket book belonging to the collection “Découvertes Gallimard”, which has been translated into seven languages, including English.[7] On 20 September 2020, Patin was invited to a café littéraire [fr] based on her book Monet : « un œil... mais, bon Dieu, quel œil ! ». The meeting was organised in a former florist shop at the Place de l'Église of Illiers-Combray, during a book fair held in the commune.[8]
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