The Petit Palais unveils its Treasures in Black & White

 

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Who better than Dürer to evoke the art of printmaking? If the Petit Palais knows its classics well and has in its reserves no less than 264 original works by the sacred German genius, the greatest engraver of all time during his lifetime, its graphic arts cabinet contains many other treasures. Of the 12,000 sheets in its collection, the institution has chosen to select 200 with the greatest care, in order to reflect the richness of its collections. The master of Nuremberg is therefore not going it alone here but can count on the presence of great names in the history of art like Rembrandt, Callot and Goya. Between the Caprices of one and the profane subjects of the other, the exhibition thus sheds light on the work of virtuoso artists who knew how to thwart the whims of light to express the virtues of black and white. The apocalyptic scenes here respond to the fantastic landscapes, a dark portrait of Toulouse-Lautrec dialogues with that much softer of Auguste Renoir, while an enigmatic lithograph by Odilon Redon soon eclipses all the others with its audacity and originality. Unless your own creation, made using a digital table made available at the end of the tour, steals the show...

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