Henri Rousseau, "La Charmeuse de serpents", 1907, Musée d'Orsay. Legs Jacques Doucet, 1936 © Musée d’Orsay, dist. GrandPalaisRmn / Patrice Schmidt
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Henri Rousseau, A Painter's Ambition
25/03/2026 - 20/07/2026
Musée de l'Orangerie
Jardin des Tuileries
75001 Paris
www.musee-orangerie.fr/
The Musée de l'Orangerie, in collaboration with the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, is organising an exhibition on the painter Henri Rousseau. The Musée de l'Orangerie will be the first to welcolme loans from the Barnes Foundation's collection, bringing together for the first time a significant body of works by Henri Rousseau that passed through the hands of art dealer Paul Guillaume.
This exhibition looks back on Henri Rousseau’s career (1844-1910), his approach to painting, and his professional ambitions through his connections to the art market. Bringing together the two largest collections of the artist's work, as well as major works from international public collections, provides an opportunity to study the materiality of an entire corpus, with recent scientific analyses carried out by the Barnes Foundation shedding new light on the artist's painting technique. In parallel, the Orangerie collection has been entrusted to the Centre de Recherche et de Restauration des Musées de France (French museums’ centre for research and restoration - C2RMF) rounding off this ensemble and studying its coherence in terms of the techniques and materials used.
25/03/2026 - 20/07/2026
Musée de l'Orangerie
Jardin des Tuileries
75001 Paris
www.musee-orangerie.fr/
The Musée de l'Orangerie, in collaboration with the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, is organising an exhibition on the painter Henri Rousseau. The Musée de l'Orangerie will be the first to welcolme loans from the Barnes Foundation's collection, bringing together for the first time a significant body of works by Henri Rousseau that passed through the hands of art dealer Paul Guillaume.
This exhibition looks back on Henri Rousseau’s career (1844-1910), his approach to painting, and his professional ambitions through his connections to the art market. Bringing together the two largest collections of the artist's work, as well as major works from international public collections, provides an opportunity to study the materiality of an entire corpus, with recent scientific analyses carried out by the Barnes Foundation shedding new light on the artist's painting technique. In parallel, the Orangerie collection has been entrusted to the Centre de Recherche et de Restauration des Musées de France (French museums’ centre for research and restoration - C2RMF) rounding off this ensemble and studying its coherence in terms of the techniques and materials used.