Jean Lurçat, French painter, ceramic artist and tapestry designer, has greatly contributed to the renewal of the artistic language in the field of tapestry.

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Upon arriving in Paris in 1912, Lurçat met gallery owners, collectors and writers. He explores painting, fresco, stained glass, and ceramics, while creating theater sets and tapestry models.

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In 1917, Jean Lurçat had his first canvases made by his mother. The director of Manufactures Nationales, Guillaume Janneau, seduced by the pattern, placed an important order for a set to be executed in 1936 at Les Gobelins. In 1926, Lurçat exhibited personally in Paris and Brussels, and participated in group exhibitions in Vienna, Paris and Antwerp. In the 1940s, he abandoned oil painting in favor of gouache and collaborated with André Derain and Raoul Dufy.

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In 1961, he was elected president of the International Center for Ancient and Modern Tapestry (CITAM) in Lausanne, of which he was a co-founder. In 1986, Simone Lurçat donated the Lot of works by the artist and the Château des Tours-Saint-Laurent to the department, ruins purchased and restored by the couple. This place, which became Jean-Lurçat workshop-museum, was inaugurated in July 1988. La Lurçat Foundation, housed at the Académie des Beaux-Arts, whose mission is to protect and promote the work of the painter-cardboard maker.