In her portraits, she tried to maintain the delicate skills and sensitivity that had made her successful before the Revolution and during her Emigration. Her salon still attracted celebrities, foreign visitors and fashionable artists and writers because of the fact that she had witnessed the heyday of Louis XVI.
The artist continued to paint portraits but also took up open-air landscape painting which was a new genre for her. In the lists of her works, she indicates that she had done over 200 pastel paintings of landscapes just for her own enjoyment.
We only have a few of them. Yet, they illustrate the romantic generation’s new feeling for nature.
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.
