And if to visit and discover Grenoble, the capital of the Alps, you entered the convent?
And this, for one hell of a reason: to discover Rembrandt, the engraver.
Ninety of his 290 engraved works are kept at the Couvent Sainte-Cécile, headquarters of Éditions Glénat, which opened the aptly named Cabinet Rembrandt there in 2019 in the former parlor of the nuns.
It is the largest collection in France, the third in Europe (after the British Museum and the Louvre).
Until May 17, nine prints by a Dutch collector and three new engravings from the Glénat collection are hung there in the permanent exhibition, including Landscape with Three Trees (1643).
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To be observed with the naked eye, and with a magnifying glass to read between the lines of the drawing (or with a torch during Museum Night).
The mediation is original and useful for grasping the finesse of chiaroscuro and the rare technique used by the master: etching.
Rembrandt hides details invisible at first sight...
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