“Not Even Scared!”
September 25, 2018 12:43 PM   Subscribe

Skulls and snuffboxes, tombs, bankers, umbrellas, devils, pins, babies... Baroness Mathilde de Rothschild collected skull art, which she then donated to a Parisian museum. The Fondation Bemberg Musée is now hosting an exhibition of this cranial creativity, entitled Même pas peur!

“It is not the baroness’s choice of macabre artifacts that is surprising, but the fact that it was a woman collecting them,” [Sophie Motsch, a curator at the museum] said. “I know of no other woman to have done so,” she added, noting that although the actress Sarah Bernhardt slept in a coffin and made still-life paintings with skulls, “she didn’t collect.”

Rothschildiana previously.
posted by doctornemo (4 comments total) 23 users marked this as a favorite
 
that skull rosary!!! WANT.

srsly thanks this is very cool and sounds like an awesome exhibit!
posted by supermedusa at 1:35 PM on September 25, 2018


A woman after my own heart! I would love to see this in person. Thank you for this.
posted by annieb at 3:23 PM on September 25, 2018


This sounds like such an amazing collection! I omg-ed over that rosary, and I can't quite get over the skull cane knob that sticks out its tongue and rolls its eyes.
posted by mixedmetaphors at 4:05 PM on September 25, 2018


Those are incredible. If I had to pick a favorite it would be the amazing okimonos with the toad.
posted by not_the_water at 10:30 PM on September 25, 2018


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