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Maximilien Luce (1858-1941), the instinct of Landscape
Musée de Montmartre
From 21 March to 14 September 2025
This retrospective highlights the work of neo-impressionist painter Maximilien Luce, a key figure in anarchist circles, through the lens of landscape.
The Experience of Nature in the Arts at the Court of Rudolf II in Prague
Musée du Louvre
From 19 March to 30 June 2025
Emperor Rudolf II took a keen interest in the study of nature, and surrounded himself with scientists and artists whose diverse approaches contributed to the renewal of artistic creation at his court.
Les mondes de Watteau
Musée Condé – Château de Chantilly
From March 8 to June 15, 2025
This exhibition reconstructs the genesis of certain paintings, bringing together different treatments of the same subject by the artist, or comparing the approaches he successively adopted.
Caillebotte. Painting men
Musée d’Orsay
From 8 October 2024 to 19 January 2025
This exhibition focuses on Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894) and his predilection for masculine forms and portraits of men, and seeks to examine this artist’s profoundly radical modernity through the lens of art history’s changing perspective on 19th-century forms of masculinity.
Paris, city of pearls
L’Ecole des Arts Joailliers
From 21 November 2024 to 1 June 2025
The ‘Paris, city of pearls’ exhibition tells the forgotten story of an incredible artistic, commercial and human adventure: the pearl, which for decades was at the heart of the luxury industry and Parisian culture.
Figures of the fool. From the Middle Ages to the Romantics
Musée du Louvre
From October 16 to February 3, 2025
The exhibition “Figures du fou. From the Middle Ages to the Romantics” examines the emblematic figure of the medieval madman through its various representations.
The exhibition, organized chronologically and thematically, features over 300 works of art.
Christofle, a Brilliant History
Musée des Arts décoratifs
14 November – 20 April 2025
Through an immersive and magical exhibition, this large retrospective features a selection of over six hundred pieces of gold and silverwork, paintings, drawings, and posters, from the Bouilhet-Christofle Collection and other major national collections.
François Chifflart. The Rebel
Maison de Victor Hugo
7 November 2024 – 23 March 2025
The museum pays tribute to this master of black and white, complementing its significant collection with loans from many institutions, particularly from the Musée de l’Hôtel Sandelin in Saint-Omer and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, thus offering a retrospective of an artist who deserved to be rediscovered.
Ribera. Darkness and Light
Petit Palais
5 November 2024 – 25 February 2025
The Petit Palais presents the first French retrospective dedicated to Jusepe de Ribera, a great 17th-century painter of Spanish origin who made his entire career in Italy.
Pop Forever, Tom Wesselmann & …
Fondation Louis Vuitton
17 October 2024 – 24 February 2025
This exhibition focuses around Tom Wesselmann through a selection of 150 paintings and works in various materials.
The exhibition also features 70 works by 35 artists who share a common sensibility for “Pop”
Bruno Liljefors. Wild Sweden
Petit Palais
1 October 2024 – 16 February 2025
Bruno Liljefors is a key figure in the Scandinavian art scene of the late 19th century.
Through this very first presentation to the French public, the Petit Palais aims to reveal Liljefors’ pictorial virtuosity and original contribution to the construction of the imagery of Swedish nature.
The Flowers of Yves Saint Laurent
Musée Yves Saint-Laurent
20 September 2024 – 4 May 2025
Designed by curators Olivier Saillard and Gaël Mamine, the exhibition follows an opening exhibition on view at the Musée Yves Saint Laurent Marrakech from March 2, 2024 through January 5, 2025.
Yves Saint Laurent was daily surrounded by flowers and gardens — in his apartments, his secondary residences, or his fashion house. A lover of flora, he found an endless source of inspiration in them.
Gold Ming
Musée Guimet
18 September 2024 – 13 January 2025
The exhibition “Gold of the Ming: Splendors and Beauties of Imperial China” offers an exceptional foray into the refined world of Chinese goldsmithing under the Ming dynasty.
Thanks to the generosity of the Qujiang Museum of Fine Arts, which has consented to loans of rare value, visitors are invited to an in-depth exploration of this singular art, going beyond mere aesthetic contemplation.
Masterpieces from the Borghese Gallery
Musée Jacquemart André
6 September 2024 – 5 January 2025
The Musée Jacquemart-André is hosting a major exhibition, the result of an unprecedented collaboration with the prestigious Galleria Borghese in Rome.
For the first time in France, more than forty masterpieces from this iconic collection are unveiled to the public, offering an exceptional journey through Italian and European art from the Renaissance to the 17th century.
Oudrymania. Fables, chasses, combats.
Musée Condé – Château de Chantilly
8 June – 6 October 2024
Depicted in hunting, portraiture or combat, animals feature among the most striking images produced by Jean-Baptiste Oudry.
Auguste Herbin (1882-1960)
Musée de Montmartre
15 March – 15 September 2024
The Musée de Montmartre is the first museum in Paris to organise a retrospective devoted to this tireless pioneer, who is unjustly forgotten despite being a key figure in the history of modernism.
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