She devoted herself to it throughout her career. She skilfully created shaded tones and effects with colours and materials and her pastel paintings matched up to oil paintings.
She was a talented draughtswoman and left a small number graphic works showing great sensitivity. Pastels, black chalks and sanguine crayons lent themselves well to instinctive and fast drawings, often in the presence of models.
Vigée Le Brun also liked to use them when drawing her «têtes d’expressions», a genre popularised by her friend Jean Baptiste Greuze.
On the accessible and original theme of street art, through an immersive trail, with a rhythmic soundtrack and interactive activities: Loading is the exhibition you've been looking for to delight the whole family over the holidays! Follow the guide.
From 13 March, the Musée du Luxembourg will be bringing two worlds together: sport and design. Explore the role that design plays in sports performance, through a selection of installations, projections and objects at the cutting edge of design!
It was via the performing arts that the writer Gertrude Stein first found success, and it is in the performing arts that her influence endures. We have only to look at the creations of the dancer and choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, who developed in the 1980s a minimalist style in response to Stein’s work!
A monument of stone, glass and metal, the Grand Palais blends into the urban landscape. However, on closer inspection, it is in fact bursting with colour, and one of the challenges of the restoration work currently underway is to restore all its chromatic ranges.
