Albrecht Dürer, "Adam et Eve", 1504, gravure sur bois, Petit Palais, musée des Beaux-arts de la Ville de Paris © Paris Musées / Petit Palais
Treasures in black & white - Dürer, Rembrandt, Goya, Toulouse-Lautrec…
12/09/2023 - 14/01/2024
Petit Palais
Avenue Winston Churchill
75008 Paris
The Petit Palais puts its rich collection of graphic arts on show through a selection of almost 200 prints by the great masters of printmaking such as Dürer, Rembrandt, Callot, Goya and Toulouse-Lautrec, among others. Printmaking holds pride of place in the Petit Palais. It reflects the taste of its illustrious donors, brothers Auguste and Eugène Dutuit, and of curator Henry Lapauze, who created a Musée de l'Estampe Moderne in 1908 within the Petit Palais itself. Following the thread of history of the collections, the exhibition showcases the Petit Palais’ most beautiful treasures, offering a panorama of prints from the 15th to the 20th centuries.
The first part of the exhibition presents a selection of the finest prints in the Dutuit collection, which consists of no less than 12,000, all signed by the greatest painters and engravers of their time. These works, brought together under the aegis of Eugène Dutuit are top-quality, rare and have an impeccable pedigree, as demonstrated by The Hundred Guilder Print by Rembrandt, exceptional for its size (almost 50 centimetres wide). It also has an illustrious history, since it once belonged to Dominique-Vivant Denon, the first director of the Louvre. Among the 45 artists featured,four of them, the authors of some very powerful works, have been chosen to illustrate this 'Dutuit taste': Dürer, Rembrandt, Callot and Goya.
Petit Palais
Avenue Winston Churchill
75008 Paris
The Petit Palais puts its rich collection of graphic arts on show through a selection of almost 200 prints by the great masters of printmaking such as Dürer, Rembrandt, Callot, Goya and Toulouse-Lautrec, among others. Printmaking holds pride of place in the Petit Palais. It reflects the taste of its illustrious donors, brothers Auguste and Eugène Dutuit, and of curator Henry Lapauze, who created a Musée de l'Estampe Moderne in 1908 within the Petit Palais itself. Following the thread of history of the collections, the exhibition showcases the Petit Palais’ most beautiful treasures, offering a panorama of prints from the 15th to the 20th centuries.
The first part of the exhibition presents a selection of the finest prints in the Dutuit collection, which consists of no less than 12,000, all signed by the greatest painters and engravers of their time. These works, brought together under the aegis of Eugène Dutuit are top-quality, rare and have an impeccable pedigree, as demonstrated by The Hundred Guilder Print by Rembrandt, exceptional for its size (almost 50 centimetres wide). It also has an illustrious history, since it once belonged to Dominique-Vivant Denon, the first director of the Louvre. Among the 45 artists featured,four of them, the authors of some very powerful works, have been chosen to illustrate this 'Dutuit taste': Dürer, Rembrandt, Callot and Goya.