A Ballad of Love and Death: Pre-Raphaelite Photography in Great Britain, 1848-1875
Musée d’Orsay
8 March – 29 May 2011
In the second half of the 19th century, during the heyday of Victorian England, the aesthetic principles of the Pre-Raphaelite painters were frequently echoed by the photographers of the time who aspired to be recognised as artists in their own right.
The Musée d’Orsay is delighted with the record number of visitors to these two major international exhibitions in Tokyo and San Francisco. 16 August was the last day for the exhibition Beyond Impressionism. Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay, presented at the National Art Centre of Tokyo, and supported by the Nikkei group. With 777,551 visitors […]
The Musée d’Orsay is delighted with the huge success of the travelling exhibitions Beyond Impressionism. Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay and From Manet to Impressionism. A Modern Renaissance, organised while work is carried out at the museum.
Heinrich Kühn Musée d’Orsay 18 October 2010 – 23 January 2011 Heinrich Kühn’s great ambition was to take artistic photographs that could rival painting. A major figure in international Pictorialism around 1900 and close to two of the movement’s great leaders, Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Steichen, he developed a modernist style although he stayed within […]
Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904) Musée d’Orsay 18 October 2010 – 23 January 2011 This exhibition is the first monographic exhibition on Jean-Léon Gérôme in Paris and the first major exhibition since the pioneer show organised by Gerald Ackerman in 1972-1973 (Dayton Art Institute, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore). Perception of this artist has […]
Crime and Punishment Musée d’Orsay 15 March – 27 June 2010 On 30 September 1981, the French Minister of Justice Robert Badinter succeeded in having capital punishment abolished in France. Debates over the issue had dragged on for two centuries. Le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau had asked the members of the constituent assembly to abolish capital […]
Art Nouveau Revival 1900 • 1933 • 1966 • 1974 Musée d’Orsay 20 October 2009 – 4 February 2010 Rejected and reviled in the decades after its brief flowering, Art Nouveau enjoyed a spectacular rehabilitation in the 1960s. This re-evaluation is a particularly interesting episode in the history of taste because it occurred in several […]
Meijer de Haan Musée d’Orsay 15 March – 20 June 2010 An introduction to the work of Meijer de Haan (1852-1895), who is known today largely through portraits by his friend Paul Gauguin. No monograph exhibition has been dedicated to this artist, although he was an important figure in Gauguin’s circle in the late 1880s […]
James Ensor Musée d’Orsay 20 October 2009 – 4 February 2010 When exhibited in Belgium – at the Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique in Brussels or the Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten in Antwerp – James Ensor (1861-1949) comes across as an innovative, tormented Belgian artist. At the Musee d’Orsay, his paintings are seen […]
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