ARTS
WEEK
Welcome to the Fine Arts Paris Arts Week programme!
This series of events beyond the fair itself is intended to highlight collections of museums in Paris and the Île-de-France region, major exhibitions of the season.
You are invited to attend special events which provide a great opportunity for exchange and interaction, thanks to the curators and directors of the institutions that are partners of Fine Arts Paris.
Registration details
To register:
1 – Click on the cross next to “Register for this visi!t”.
2 – Complete and submit the form.
You will receive an initial email confirming your registration straight away.
You will then receive reminder emails and, 48 hours before the event, an email containing the practical information you’ll need for your visit.
Please note!
As places are limited, bookings are processed on a first-come, first-served basis, with a limit of two visits per person.
Please ensure you do not book visits with the same or very similar start times.
We would like to remind you that these visits are organised by museum curators and directors. Any visit booked but not honoured will automatically make it impossible to register for the forthcoming years.
Arts Week 2026 has come to an end!
See you next year!
L’École des Arts Joailliers
Daniel Brush,
the Art of Line and Light
Friday 18 September, 5.15 pm
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A visit of the exhibition Daniel Brush: The Art of Line and Light.
L’ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts presents an exhibition dedicated to the American artist Daniel Brush (1947-2022), from June 8th to October 4th, 2026, in Paris.
Daniel Brush, the Art of Line and Light showcases more than 75 of the artist’s jewels and objects, some of which leave his New York studio for the first time.
This monograph explores the work of this modern artist, sculptor, draftsman and thinker, who was also a goldsmith and jeweler.
Self-taught, Daniel Brush embodied a visionary approach, free of artistic boundaries, guided by a focus on light, material and line.
Curated by his wife and collaborator, Olivia Brush, together with jewelry historian Vivienne Becker, the exhibition demonstrates how Daniel Brush was able to cross and transcend boundaries between art and jewelry.
Daniel Brush Nest: Butterflies, Ladybugs [detail], 1990-1992
Pure gold, steel
Private Collection
© L’ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts – B. Chelly
Institut Giacometti
Surrealist Giacometti
Objects like Sculptures
Saturday 19 September, 10.00 am
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The Institut Giacometti invites you to a special guided tour of the exhibition Surrealist Giacometti: Objects like Sculptures, led by its curator, Laura Braverman.
The exhibition offers a unique perspective on Alberto Giacometti’s surrealist period (1929–1935), during which the artist also explored the creation of decorative art objects.
By bringing together major surrealist sculptures by Alberto Giacometti and his rarely exhibited decorative objects, the exhibition sheds light on a lesser-known aspect of his practice and reveals the porosity between these fields of creation.
View of the exhibition “Surrealist Giacometti: Objects like Sculptures” © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI, Dist. GrandPalaisRmn © Alberto Giacometti Estate / ADAGP, Paris 2026
Musée Jacquemart André
Éternel Tintoret
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Monday 21 September, 8.30 am
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A private visit of the exhibition Éternel Tintoret, led by Pierre Curie, director and curator of the Jacquemart-André Museum.
This exhibition offers a sweeping portrait of the great Venetian master Jacopo Robusti, known as Tintoretto (1518/19–1594), exploring both the richness of his oeuvre—from monumental religious compositions and portraits to mythological scenes—and the profound influence he exerted on nineteenth-century French painting.
The exhibition brings together Venetian masterpieces, preparatory drawings, and modern paintings that resonate with them, revealing the singular vision of this fascinating artist at the crossroads of the Renaissance’s vibrant use of color and a strikingly visionary expressiveness.
From Eugène Delacroix and Paul Cézanne to Édouard Manet, the exhibition highlights an unexpected artistic lineage linking Tintoretto to the French avant-garde. It shows how his work, long misunderstood, was rediscovered and championed by artists who recognized in it a remarkable sense of modernity far ahead of its time.
Curators: Giovanni C.F. Villa, professor of art history, director of the Palazzo Madama – Museum of Ancient Art, Turin; Neville Rowley, PhD in art history, curator at the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin; Pierre Curie, curator of the Jacquemart-André Museum
Tintoret, Autoportrait, vers 1588, huile sur toile, 63 x 52 cm,
Paris, Musée du Louvre, département des Peintures
Crédit photo : © GrandPalaisRmn (musée du Louvre) Jean-Gilles Berizzi
Petit Palais
Eva Gonzalès Retrospective
Monday 21 September, 10.30 am
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A private visit of the Eva Gonzalès Retrospective, held after closing time, led by Stéphanie Cantarutti, chief curator of the Department of Modern Paintings.
From September 15, 2026 to January 24, 2027, the Petit Palais presents the first major monographic exhibition dedicated to the painter Eva Gonzalès (1847–1883).
A contemporary of Mary Cassatt and Berthe Morisot, with whom she is often associated, Eva Gonzalès has nevertheless never been the subject of a major retrospective, either in France or internationally. An artist of remarkable sensitivity, she was the only pupil of Édouard Manet, with whom she shared an exceptional artistic relationship. Supported by an attentive and cultivated family, she succeeded in establishing her own distinctive artistic voice in a century that offered few opportunities to women artists.
Bringing together nearly 100 works—including paintings, pastels, and prints—the exhibition pays tribute to an artist of delicate yet assured talent, whose promising career was cut short by her premature death at the age of 34.
Eva Gonzalès, Young Girl Awakening, c. 1877–1878. Kunsthalle Bremen.
Château de Versailles
Marie-Antoinette’s
Private Apartments
Monday 21 September, 4.00 pm
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Visit to Marie-Antoinette’s Private Apartments at the Palace of Versailles, by Hélène Delalex, Chief Curator at the Palace of Versailles, in charge of the Queen’s Private Apartments.
In June 2023, after several years of restoration work, Marie-Antoinette’s private apartments reopened to the public in their entirety. On the first floor, visitors can now discover the Boudoir de la Méridienne, restored to reflect its last known textile décor before the French Revolution. The second floor, benefiting from recent discoveries, underwent a complete restoration and refurnishing.
A partnership between the Palace of Versailles, the Museum of Toile de Jouy, and the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, together with the in-kind sponsorship of Maison Pierre Frey, made it possible to recreate the printed textiles using traditional eighteenth-century techniques. The final phase of the project, devoted to the refurnishing of the rooms and the restoration of nearly all the works of art on display, also provided an opportunity for an in-depth study of these remarkable objects.
The Méridienne Cabinet
© Palace of Versailles, Dist. RMN © Christophe Fouin
Musée de l’Armée
Visit to the Heritage Gallery and the Musée de l’Armée’s Department of Graphic Arts
Tuesday 22 September, 10.00 am
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Visit to the Heritage Gallery and the Musée de l’Armée’s Department of Graphic Arts.
Opened in the summer of 2024, the Hôtel des Invalides : entre histoire et mémoires gallery provides an introduction to the visit of the Musée de l’Armée by tracing the history of the Hôtel des Invalides through a chronological timeline. Housed in a former dining hall for veteran residents, the gallery features works of art and heritage objects presented in three successive historical periods—Royal, Imperial, and Republican. Together, they illustrate the site’s hospital, memorial, and heritage functions, highlighting the enduring relationship between a historic monument and a museum dedicated to its own history.
The Musée de l’Armée also opens the doors of its Department of Graphic Arts, where visitors can discover a selection of works that have recently entered the collections and explore the museum’s main acquisition priorities. These include the history of the Hôtel des Invalides as well as more contemporary conflicts.
Illumination Workshop of the Hôtel Royal des Invalides, Gradual and Antiphonary for the Use of the Royal House of Saint-Louis des Invalides, 1682, illuminated and calligraphed parchment. p. 116 c
Paris, musée de l’Armée, inv. 389 bis-2 ; 3251 Bib
© Paris, musée de l’Armée, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais
Maison de Victor Hugo
Hugo et l’architecture
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Tuesday 22 September, 10.30 am
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A visit to the exhibition Hugo and Architecture.
The Maison de Victor Hugo aims to highlight the central role of architecture in Hugo’s literary and artistic creation.
Victor Hugo transforms stone into a language and buildings into narratives, revealing a vision where writing, drawing, and building all stem from the same creative gesture.
The exhibition offers a journey blending literature, drawing, and heritage preservation, from his famous novel Notre-Dame de Paris to his sketches of churches and castles, from imagined ruins to fantastical cities.
Victor Hugo, Le phare d’Eddystone, drawing, 1866
© Maisons de Victor Hugo Paris-Guernese, Paris Musées
Musée des Arts Décoratifs
A Day in the Eighteenth Century:
Chronicle of a Parisian Townhouse
Wednesday 23 September, 10.00 am
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A tour of the exhibition A Day in the Eighteenth Century : Chronicle of a Parisian Townhouse, led by Ariane James-Sarazin and Sophie Motsch, the exhibition’s curators.
Step inside the intimate world of an eighteenth-century aristocratic residence and its inhabitants – masters, servants, and household animals.
Featuring more than 550 original objects, drawn from the museum’s collections and for most of them, rarely exhibited, the exhibition gathers all fields of expression of the decorative arts – wood panelling and wallpapers, furniture, ceramics, silverware, clothing and fashion accessories, toys, and jewellery – to recreate the life of a Parisian hôtel particulier in the 1780s.
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