Wall of sponsors

Majid Boustany, founder and president of the Francis Bacon MB Art Foundation, is the sponsor of the Ecole du Louvre 2021-2022 operation, an ambitious scheme focused on the Flora wing of the Louvre Palace, which included:

• The reorganisation and extension of the library to give students and teachers a new place of study, specially adapted for the issues of today and tomorrow.
• The creation of a research centre to strengthen the scientific research work carried out within the school by nearly 80 PhD students, and to provide the school with a dedicated structure for welcoming national and international researchers.
• The reorganisation of documentary and IT services.

Nearly 1,300 square meters have been renovated thanks to this exceptional act of sponsorship to contribute to the development and influence of the Ecole du Louvre.

In 2023, this sponsorship was extended with the donation of new works of art put up in the hall of the Flore wing: 
Pi baroco n°2 bleu, 1=45° (2001) de François Morellet, et La Marseillaise (1997) de César.

The Fondation Daniel et Nina Carasso created in 2009 in memory of Daniel Carasso, who founded Danone in France, and his wife Nina, supports projects which are in the public interest and in two major areas: food and nutrition on the one hand, and art on the other, including actions relating to research and training in these two areas.

It provided support to the Ecole du Louvre by granting an exceptional sponsorship intended to develop its third cycle of research. Thanks to this, it was possible to form a permanent research team and launch a number of programmes. The school was able to:

• recruit on fixed-term contracts with assigned resources for teacher-researchers to form its research team (part-time positions);
• fund research scholarships for third-cycle students;
• develop a space intended for teacher-researchers;
• welcome guest researchers;
• create an online magazine based on articles written by students and/or teachers;
• organise international conferences.

It was a crucial boost for the development of research at the École du Louvre which has been reaffirming its position in the landscape of higher education.

To ensure and consolidate the development of the school, the Fondation Daniel et Nina Carasso has funded a fundraising consultancy committee to increase the school’s sponsorship resources (2019-2021), as well as a four-year contract for a sponsorship and fundraising manager which is not counted as part of the school’s employment budget. The foundation also provided the Ecole du Louvre with exceptional support to fight against students’ economic difficulties created by the Covid pandemic and create emergency financial support for French and foreign students. The equivalent of full scholarships, as well as complimentary funding, were given out on a case-by-case basis to young people enrolled at the Ecole du Louvre.

After the closure of the Maison Rouge, the Fondation Antoine de Galbert, refocused its sponsorship activities to different areas, but still linked to contemporary art, art history and its key players. In 2019, it became a sponsor of the Ecole du Louvre, as part of the development of its third cycle and its research activities.

At the start of the 2019 school year, research and mobility grants were given out and offered doctoral students excellent conditions for them to carry out and successfully complete their work. Several applicants are selected each year for the originality and quality of their work in art history and museology and benefit from this exceptional support.

At the same time, sensitive to the situation of students since the pandemic, the foundation has funded life grants for first-year students since the 2020-2021 school year.

The Francis Bacon MB Art Foundation is a non-profit institution dedicated to the study of the work of Francis Bacon. It awards scholarships in three different categories:

• Research: short or long-term academic research on the work of Francis Bacon, his life and his working methods (publications of doctoral theses and other independent research works);
• Support for artists: by providing support to emerging artists working in various media in correlation with the philosophy of the foundation;
• And any other type of project related to Francis Bacon.

The Francis Bacon MB Art Foundation awards every four years a research grant to a third-cycle doctoral student from the school whose work relates to Francis Bacon or who has a direct link with the British artist (comparative study between Bacon and one or more artist(s), thematic studies relating to his work or his pictorial practice, etc). A research project that can be expanded and framed around multidisciplinary questions such as literature, decorative arts, cinema and photography, in relation to Francis Bacon.

2016 scholarship
“From the library to life: a reading of the iconographic territory of the work of Francis Bacon”
by Milan Garcin (École du Louvre/University of Paris Nanterre).

2020 scholarship
“Francis Bacon and Parisian collections”
by Cerise Thelwall Doussot (École du Louvre/University of Neuchatel).

The Fondation Étrillard is a non-profit organisation under Swiss law. In accordance with the wishes of its founder, it is active in the canton of Geneva, in Switzerland and in Europe, mainly in France, Italy and Germany, and encourages all charitable and cultural initiatives that reconcile European tradition and culture with the contemporary world.

The Foundation has a collection that is partly accessible to the public, and awards grants for projects to restore historical, civil or religious sites and monuments that are open to all. It also supports research and musical events that help to promote original musical writing from the Middle Ages to the present day, as well as programmes linked to art history and heritage.

With the École du Louvre, the Fondation Étrillard has decided to support, via the Endowment Fund, an original research project devoted to the links and correspondences between the arts of the past and the arts of the present, through a grant awarded to a postgraduate student for the three years of his or her thesis (2021-2024). The Foundation also funds living grants for undergraduates.

The Crédit Agricole d'Île-de-France Mécénat’s two missions are the preservation of the Ile-de-France heritage and supporting of young talents. Ten years after its creation, the endowment fund has already supported more than 110 projects and hundreds of young conservators, restorers, artists, researchers and athletes in Île-de-France.

In 2022, Crédit Agricole d'Île-de-France Mécénat becomes a sponsor of the Ecole du Louvre and subsequently offered each year for three years four scholarships to four Master 1 students working on Ile-de-France heritage. The objective is to allow deserving students in greatest need to benefit from financial support while promoting research into the heritage of the Île-de-France region and promoting this heritage.

Deeply linked to its region, Crédit Agricole d'Île-de-France supports more than 1.6 million customers on a daily basis: individuals, professionals, SMEs, large companies, associations and public authorities. It always aims to be useful to its local territory, both through its role as a major economic player, and also through the continued support of local actions of its 52 local banks and its endowment fund.

La Fondation Marc de Montalembert,housed at the Fondation de France, was created in 2001. It promotes dialogue between Mediterranean cultures,  supports the realisation of cultural projects by young people in the region and hosts intercultural meetings at its headquarters in Rhodes, Greece.

The Fondation Marc de Montalembert, who has been in collaboration with the Ecole du Louvre since 2021, wished to support the completion of research work which contributes to a better knowledge of the arts and culture of the Mediterranean world, through the Prix Marc de Montalembert award.

The winner receives 9,000-euro grant and gains access to the Research Centre of the Ecole du Louvre for a month.
They are also supported for a year through scientific advice from a member of the research team. The results of their research are published and disseminated with the assistance of the Ecole du Louvre.
The Fondation Marc de Montalembert also offers the winner the opportunity to stay at its headquarters in Rhodes, Greece.

The winner of the Prix Marc de Montalembert 2024 is Alessandro Serrani. The Prize supports his research on "Work and art. Professional guilds in the Bolognese Renaissance" at the University of Bologna (Italy). 

The Fondation Léonard Gianadda Mécénat aims to continue the commitments and financial support provided by Léonard Gianadda throughout his life. As an extension of his charitable actions, both social and in favour of culture, he wished to support, through two scholarships, students of the Ecole du Louvre who are among those in greatest need during the year 2022 -2023.

The Fédération Française du Lyceum Club International, created in 1963, is part of the international association of Lyceum Clubs. Reserved for women who are interested in the arts, letters, sciences, social issues, progress and the promotion of knowledge, in a spirit of friendship and openness to the world, the clubs organise various activities and cultural and sociability outings. To honour its vocation of promoting culture and knowledge, the Lyceum Club International (LCI) regularly sets up sponsorships or support actions with the institutions concerned.

This desire for support coincides with the projects of the Ecole du Louvre in favour of equal access to its higher education and research in art history, and success for all.

Thus, the federation has become a sponsor of the school and will offer each year for three years a scholarship with a view to facilitating research linking art history, history of collections or museology with the question of the feminine in the broad sense, to a second or third-cycle student, from 2022-2023 to 2024-2025.

The Fonds de Dotation Interconstruction is an endowment fund which focuses on education in the broad sense, as a rich and favourable breeding ground for the progression of individuals. Educational projects help open the eyes of the wider public, trigger questions and encourage everyone to conscientiously shape the city of tomorrow.

The Haute-Savoie Departmental Council has embarked on a project to create a new departmental museum to showcase the 77,000 items in its collections, including a major fine arts collection. Acquired in 1978, the Chastel collection comprises a body of more than 80 works that belonged to the general of the same name, a baron of the First Empire from Haute-Savoie, whose military effects are kept at the Thonon-les-Bains museum. His important collection of paintings has now been divided between the Département, the City of Geneva and his descendants.

Against this backdrop, the Haute-Savoie Departmental Council has decided to support a postgraduate student at the École du Louvre with a €4,000 grant to write a thesis on the collection housed by the Department. The aim of the thesis will be to study the collections of First Empire generals, including that of General Pierre Louis Aimé Chastel (1774-1826).

Applications are open until 12 May 2024. Link to application form.