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Article: Art note: the last display at the Hermitage Rooms.(Brief article)
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- December 22, 2007
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Sadly, we must announce the closure of the Hermitage Rooms at Somerset House, London. This joint venture by the Courtauld Institute and the Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, was well administered and publicised with skill and energy, but in the end proved too costly.
Like Tsarina Catherine II, her grandson Alexander I collected collections, amongst them that of Josephine de Beauharnais, the first wife of Napoleon Bonaparte. He presented her, on parting, with the Chateau de Malmaison and a number of precious works of art which were unreclaimed loot, mainly from the Landgrave of Hesse-Cassel. These were part of Josephine's Malmaison Collection, the final exhibition ...