La donation Michel Lacoste au musée du Louvre

Thanks to the generosity of Michel Lacoste, a set of one hundred pieces of goldsmith's work was the subject, in November 2025, of a donation in future of present assets to the Musée du Louvre. These works, of diverse typologies, reveal all the know-how and refinement of French goldsmith's work from the 16th to the 18th century. They will be exceptionally displayed together for more than six months in room 605 of the Objets d'art department, alongside the Louvre's collections of silverware and ceramics that are usually presented in this room. These one hundred works represent about a quarter of the collection built since the 2000s by its owner, Michel Lacoste, whose passion for goldsmith's work was born from the sales catalogue of the Puiforcat collection that his maternal grandmother had given him.