Put away the gouaches, make way for pastels! From June 7 to September 10, 2018, the Musée du Louvre presents En Société, an exhibition based on the museum's reference collection of French pastels. A showcase for this extremely fragile type of creation, since pastels are created " from colored dust that has often been compared to that covering butterfly wings ".
Jean-Etienne Liotard, Maurice Quentin de La Tour, François Boucher, Elisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun, Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin and Jean-Marc Nattierall worked in pastel and left their mark on the art world with their methods and techniques for this type of creation during the reigns of Louis XV and Louis XVI. This is an opportunity to discover or rediscover one of the exhibition's key works, a painting by Maurice Quentin De La Tour, Portrait de la Marquise de Pompadour.
The exhibition is also an opportunity to discover and measure their genius, since the works presented are not simply sketches or other preparatory studies, as is customary with pastels, but " works in themselves, painted on a support that allows them to be framed ".
A total of 120 works dating from the 18th century, the golden age of pastel, are on show, drawn from the Louvre's collection and restored thanks to the sponsorship of the American Friends of the Louvre.
Dates and Opening Time
From June 7, 2018 to September 10, 2018
Location
Louvre Museum
musée du louvre
75001 Paris 1
Access
Metro Palais Royal - Musée du Louvre
Prices
Tarif unique: €15
Official website
www.louvre.fr
More information
Open from 9 am to 6 pm. Access via the Sully rotunda
