Restorations of furniture in the Loire Châteaux

The ‘Psyche’ wall hanging is made up of four warp-tapestry sections dating from the 17^th century. Up until 2014, they were hung in the office of the First President of Orleans’ Court of Appeal. Scientific and technical monitoring of their restoration and removal was entrusted to Gilles Blieck, Curator of Historical Monuments. 

The omnipresent portraits encountered by visitors to Château de Brissac bear witness to the role the family played in the history of France. The present Marquis of Brissac is committed to continuing their restoration: some twenty hanging in the Great Gallery, out of the 70 or so paintings, have been restored over the last 10 years. 

The first of the two most recently restored portraits depicts Jean-Paul-Timoléon, 7^th Duke of Brissac and the family’s 4^th Marshal of France (died 1780), while the second is of Louise de Malide, wife of the 9^th Duke of Brissac, Prefect under the Empire, painted in 1800 by Nicolas André Monsiau. 

On the web:

• La tenture sur l'histoire de Psyché - Château de Sully-sur-Loire (45) (Drac Centre-Val de Loire)
• Deux nouveaux tableaux restaurés au château de Brissac