As with any good ghost train, entry to the exhibition dedicated to Johann Heinrich Füssli (1741-1825) at the Jacquemart-André Museum is via a double-leaf door.
It simulates the separation of the real and the unreal.
Its doors have been decorated with reproductions of Macbeth and his livid and bloody wife.
The regicide they fomented has just been committed.
Welcome to a world of nightmares, these dreams of crimes and other fascinating prohibitions, driving forces in particular in the work of Shakespeare - an author whom England rediscovered then consecrated national poet in those years when the Swiss painter Füssli imposed himself in London.
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Hanging in the perspective, at the back of the first room of this journey in sixty psychotraumatic images, the only painting by Füssli preserved in the Louvre shows Lady Macbeth again.
Act V scene 1, here she is in the grip of a fit of somnambulism.
By the light of her candle, she hallucinates.
And we too, who now evolve among...
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