News in museums

Les nouvelles salles Art nouveau

Since July 6

Musée des Arts Décoratifs

The Musée des Arts Décoratifs has the first collection of Art Nouveau objects to be assembled in French museums, begun as early as 1889.

The Art Nouveau rooms, which reopened last July, after being completely rethought, now show about 450 objects, almost half of which have been taken out of storage…

Émailler le verre à la renaissance

Oct. 13 – Feb. 14

Musée national de la Renaissance – Château d’Écouen

In the light of recent research by experts from different fields, the exhibition will show the results of this first major investigation into enamelled glass from the Renaissance, between Venice and France, participating in the debate on attributions and dating of these objects…

Dessiner la lettre, Écrire le dessin

Oct. 15 – Janv. 16

Beaux-Arts de Paris

The relationship between text and image has never been so present in contemporary art. It is particularly evident in the field of drawing, which is similar to writing in its literal graphic character, but also in its privileged medium, paper.

The exhibition proposes to explore the question of this relationship through the previous centuries…

Le portrait animal aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles

Oct.12 – March 20

Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature

The Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature presents a tour of animal portraits, echoing the exhibition devoted to the Animaux du roi at the Château de Versailles.

Through works from the museum’s collections brought together for this event, a circuit through the rooms highlights the characteristics of animal depiction under the Ancien Régime…

Un Palais pour l’Empereur. Napoléon Ier à Fontainebleau

Sept. 15 – January 3

Château de Fontainebleau

From September, 15^th to January, 3^rd , the château de Fontainebleau presents, through more than two hundred artworks, a little-known face of the “maison des siècles, la vraie demeure des rois” and a fundamental period of the château’s history…