From october 8 2022 to march 5 2023
During the 19th century, the city of Paris "capital of the Arts" will no longer be the only artistic center of France. Multiple centers will develop throughout the territory, thanks to the arrival, sometimes massive, of foreign artists from all over the world.
The painters will move to paint on a motif or on a site. In southern Seine-et-Marne, the Loing will see the development of multiple artists'homes in the towns they pass through and the hostels will fill up with customers/artists, like the Ganne hostel in Barbizon a few decades earlier.
The exhibition, organized by the Château-Musée de Nemours, aims to understand the installation of these foreign artists over the river during the last decades of the 19th century. It evolves around different points: themes related to portraits ; with emblematic motifs such as the Pont de Grez ; to the symbolist painting of Louis Welden Hawkins and focuses on different painters : the Norwegian Johannes Grimelund, the English Arthur Heseltine, the Swedish Emma Chadwick, etc.
A marked scenography will allow you to immerse yourself in a late 19th century atmosphere.
