A collection of 30 drawings from the Louvre Museum in Paris and 30 engravings from the National Library of France by the master of French romantic painting Theodore Chasseriau are currently on exhibit at the Centro Leon. The pieces form part of an exposition of the original works of the much-acclaimed Chasseriau (1819-56), who was born in El Limon, Samana. The painter?s oeuvres are on exhibit at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art and the National Art Gallery of Canada in Ottawa. Located in Santiago de los Caballeros, the Centro Leon is described as a cultural eco-museum and is being lauded as the best museum in the country, and one of the most advanced in the Caribbean, given its functional architecture, content and symbolisms, as well as for its state-of-the-art visual and sensorial features. The Chasseriau exhibition will run from 8 June to 8 July at the Centro Leon where the public may visit on Tuesday to Sunday from 9am to 6pm, and on Wednesday until 8pm. Louis-Antonie Prat, the commissionaire of the Louvre Museum, will speak today on the artist at the Centro Leon conference hall at 6:30pm.
See http://www.centroleon.org.do