École du Louvre Patrons’ Wall Ceremony

On 30 January, Gilles Etrillard, President of the Etrillard Foundation, and Miguel Perez de Guzman, Executive Director, were welcomed to the École du Louvre for the official unveiling of the Patrons’ Wall, a ceremony recognising the partners who have worked alongside the institution in its missions of research, education and the promotion of cultural heritage.

Since 2021, the Etrillard Foundation has been supporting the École du Louvre in its academic and scientific projects. This commitment is reflected in particular through support for an original doctoral thesis exploring the dialogues between the arts of the past and contemporary creations, via the award of a doctoral scholarship covering the full three years of the PhD programme.

The Foundation also supports living grants, designed to assist undergraduate students and provide them with the material conditions conducive to academic success, thereby reaffirming its commitment to fostering excellence whilst promoting equal opportunities.

Recipients of doctoral scholarships supported by the Foundation:

2024 — Jérôme Papadopoulos, The Nabis after the Nabis

2021 — Clara Lespessailles, Primitivism amongst Ingres’s pupils (1830–1870)

In addition to scholarships, the Etrillard Foundation also supports the establishment of the Chair in Jewish Arts and Archaeology, reaffirming its commitment to the preservation, transmission and dialogue surrounding cultural heritage, from a resolutely scientific perspective that is open to the contemporary world.

The Fondation Etrillard’s inclusion on the École du Louvre’s Wall of Patrons is testament to a partnership founded on intellectual rigour, trust and the deep conviction that research sheds light on the present just as much as it nourishes the future.