The Jacquemart-André Museum (in a ravishing constructing) opens the cultural season after the summer season with a big exhibition of works by Georges de La Tour, the primary French retrospective to be held in practically thiry years.
Grasp of chiaroscuro, Georges de La Tour (1593-1652) had such a profitable profession throughout his lifetime that he was named Louis XIII’s ‘Principal Painter in Odd‘ and allowed to dwell within the Louvre. Nevertheless, after his demise, he was rapidly forgotten, and it was solely within the very early twentieth century, when his work was rediscovered, that he was lastly celebrated as some of the necessary French painters of the seventeenth century.
This new retrospective, the most important in France since 1997, gives a recent view on the painter’s life and work, with over thirty work on present (out of the roughly forty works globally authenticated as his), exhibiting his fascination with dimly-lit, enigmatic scenes the place shadow offers a really particular environment and really feel.
You’ll be capable to admire a lot of his best-known works, together with Le Nouveau-Né, La Madeleine pénitente, Job raillé par sa femme, Les Larmes de saint Pierre and Le Reniement de saint Pierre.
A French catalogue of the exhibition (208 pages, 39€) is on the market right here out of your native Amazon.
And French-speakers may additionally wish to seek the advice of the press launch on the backside of this text to study extra about de La Tour and the retrospective 😀
The exhibition Georges de La Tour – From Shadow to Mild is on the Jacquemart-André Museum (right here) from eleventh September 2025 – twenty fifth January 2026
Open daily from 10am-6pm (10pm Fridays, 7pm Saturdays)
Admission: 18.50€ / 15€
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