On Tue, 26 Mar 1996, Pamela Jean Warner wrote:

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> In Elisabeth Fraser's last message, she mentioned that the curator for
> the Courbet Museum lives in Paris and is rarely on site.  I am planning a
> research trip to France this fall that will include time in Ornans.
> I would welcome any additional information about working at Ornans,
> including the name of this "turbo-conservateur" and an address where I
> could write her.  Thank you in advance for your help.
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> Pamela Warner
> University of Delaware
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The current conservator-director should be Jean-Jacques Fernier, son of
the original organizer of the museum, Robert Fernier, who also wrote the
catalogue raisonne of Courbet's work.  The only address I have for him is
at the museum itself:

        Musee Gustave Courbet
        Vallee de la Loue
        Ornans 25290

        (tel 81.62.23.30)

Perhaps calling the museum for further instructions about how to contact
Fernier would work the best.  Ornans, by the way, is a beautiful place,
built up directly on the river Loue (as in Venice).  The museum itself
has a surprisingly serious collection, with prints, manuscripts, letters,
and documents as well.  While you're there, don't miss a visit to the
Source of the Loue, oft depicted by Courbet, and a complete surprise: it
is monumental in size, and awesome, quite the opposite of the intimate
seeming, feminized nature presented in Courbet's small oils.

Elisabeth Fraser
University of South Florida, Tampa