Gallo-Roman Terracottas at the Musée archéologique de l’Oise
Adrien Bossard, Figures de terre, Catalogue d’exposition, Musée archéologique de l’Oise, 2015
Abstract
Eighty terracotta figurines from the 2013 discovery at Vendeuil-Caply are exhibited for the first time in the Musée archéologique de l’Oise, located near the archaeological site of Vendeuil-Caply. This exhibition Figures de la terre (fig. 1), which runs until November 2015, is the result of a collaboration with 11 French museums and presents in total more than 100 objects that explore the typological variety and the aesthetic character of the Gallo-Roman figurines of northern Gaul. Included in the exhibition is Marchande de statuettes à Pompéi,1 a 19th-century painting by the neo-classical painter Henry-Pierre Picou that effectively illustrates a commercial context for Roman figurines.
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1This exhibition also provided an opportunity for the Musée archéologique de l’Oise to work with schools on the subject of the archaeology of Gallo-Roman terracottas. Various collaborations resulted in the creation of a comic book, a short film, a 3D digitization, drawings, and contemporary art, among other projects. All these items are now displayed in the museum along with the Gallo-Roman figurines.
2In 2016, the exhibition will travel to the Musée Boucher-de-Perthes (Abbeville) and its museography will be adapted to their collection of figurines. Vendeuil-Caply’s corpus will be compared to the products of ancient Greek and Roman coroplasts, as visitors will be able to explore coroplasty on a much larger scale.
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Adrien Bossard, “Gallo-Roman Terracottas at the Musée archéologique de l’Oise”, Les Carnets de l’ACoSt [Online], 13 | 2015, Online since 01 September 2015, connection on 14 December 2025. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/acost/628; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/acost.628
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