Musée Jacquemart-andré

Turner: An exceptional Show

Turner : une rétrospective exceptionnelle

He is regarded as the leading representative of the golden age of English watercolor painting. His effects of light and transparency on the English countryside or Venetian lagoons remain celebrated, inimitable.the Musée Jacquemart-andré-institut de France is paying tribute to Joseph Mallord William Turner, whose life and career spanned the 18th and 19th centuries, in an exhibition entitled Turner, Paintings and Watercolors of the Tate.

The show is being presented in conjunction with the Tate Britain, which houses the largest collection of Turners in the world and which granted an exceptional loan to the Musée Jacquemartandré which is presenting some 60 watercolors and ten oil paintings by the master, some of which have never been shown in France before. The painter died in 1851 and in 1856, Great Britain received an enormous bequest of his works including numerous oil paintings, sketches, unfinished works and thousands of works on paper including drawings, watercolors and sketchbooks all reflecting the modernity of this Romantic painter. The exhibition reveals a unique viewpoint on the imagination and work practices of the largely self-taught Turner.

The show, which follows a chronological order, enables the visitor to follow, step by step, the evolution of the painter from his youth marked by a certain Realism to the works of his mature years, marked by his fascinating experiments in light and color.

The village of Monceau was incorporated into Paris in 1860. The Plain of Monceau was at the time a wasteland bordered by farmland although it would soon become an elegant neighborhood of the Second Empire populated by the era's chic society who would build some of the most elegant homes in the capital there. One of them, the former private mansion of Nélie Jacquemart and her husband Edouard André, is today a museum housing their superb art collection and hosting major temporary exhibitions.

Through to January 11th, 2021.

158 Boulevard Haussmann (8th), 01 45 62 11 59

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