In yellow and gold, the flamboyant
Soleil de Paris
tapestry by Jean Lurçat has remained hanging on the stairs leading to the first floor.
The space devoted to temporary exhibitions is insufficient on the ground floor of the Marmottan Monet Museum, where an original set of equally dazzling works is exhibited.
Such
as this Easter Morning
, a scene of contemplation in a pale orange nature by the German Caspar David Friedrich (Madrid, Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum), this
Cross in solitude
by the American Thomas Cole (Louvre) or these three oils on copper by the baroque Venetian Carlo Saraceni (Naples, Capodimonte Museum) which represent the flight and then the fall of Icarus.
It's a shame, especially since another work is missing, a key painting with the beautiful demonstration proposed by Marianne Mathieu.
With the curator Michael Philipp, of the Barberini Museum in Potsdam, this scientific director of the place had the ambition, from
Impression soleil levant
, a founding painting of Impressionism, whose…
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