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2012: Creation of the Léon Delachaux Endowment Fund and development of the database of the Léon Delachaux catalogue raisonné

2013: Launch of the Endowment Fund’s first website

2014: First retrospective, Léon Delachaux (1850–1919), Au fil de…, displaying eighty works of art at the Association France-Amériques, Paris

2017: Publication of the first monograph of Léon Delachaux and lecture by Prof. Gabriel Weisberg (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis): “Léon Delachaux in context” on the occasion of the presentation of this monograph

Exposition : « L’Âge de raison vu par les peintres au XIXe siècle »
Exhibition « L’Âge de raison vu par les peintres au XIXe siècle »
("The Age of Reason as seen by painters in the 19th century")
Musée Fournaise, Chatou, 2018
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2018: Loan of The Affectionate Mother to the Musée Fournaise in Chatou (France), for the exhibition L’Âge de raison vu par les peintres au XIXe siècle

2019: Loan of The Banjo Player to the Mémorial ACTe in Pointe-à-Pitre (Guadeloupe, France), for the exhibition Le Modèle noir, de Géricault à Picasso

2021: Presentation by Marie Delachaux and Marie-Alice Loiseau, “The catalogue raisonné of the artist Léon Delachaux (1850-1919),” at the international online conference Artists’ Legacies: Preservation, Study, Dissemination, Institutionalization, Arpad Szenes – Vieira da Silva Foundation in Lisbon (Portugal)

2021: First issue of Carnets du Fonds de Dotation Léon Delachaux, an analysis of Delachaux’s letters to Carol Storck (1854–1926), Romanian sculptor and classmate at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) in Philadelphia from 1880 to 1884

2022: Creation of the Léon Delachaux rose by the rose breeder Guillot (France)

2025: Launch of the new website for the Léon Delachaux Endowment Fund by Supersoniks

Léon Delachaux, The Banjo Player, 1881, huile sur toile, lors de l'Exposition Le Modèle Noir à Pointe-à-Pitre en 2019
Exhibition « Le Modèle noir, de Géricault à Picasso »
("Black models: from Géricault to Picasso")
Mémorial ACTe, Pointe-à-Pitre, 2019
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Exposition « Léon Delachaux (1850-1919), Au fil de… » Association France-Amériques, Paris, 2014
Exhibition « Léon Delachaux (1850-1919), Au fil de… »
Association France-Amériques, Paris, 2014
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