Musée de la Vie romantique
House and studio of the painter Ary Scheffer, evoking the artistic and literary atmosphere of Romanticism. Memorabilia of George Sand.
Practical Information
| Place | Hôtel Scheffer-Renan |
| Access | M° St Georges (ligne 12), M° Blanche (ligne 2), M° Pigalle (lignes 2 et 12) |
| Address | 16, rue Chaptal, 75009 |
| City | Paris (France) |
| Phone | 33(0)1 48 74 95 38 |
| Fax | 33(0)1 48 74 28 42
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| Web site | www.paris-france.org/musees/
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| Admission | Tuesday to Sunday from 10.00 a.m to 6.00 p.m |
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| Full rate | Expositions 4,57 €
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| Reduced rate | 3,05 €
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Temporary Exhibitions
 Opening : From the 2008-09-16
to the 2009-01-04
Timing : Open daily from 10am to 6pm except Mondays and holidays Rates : Full price: 7.50 €uro
Reduced price: 5.50 €uro
Youth fare: 3.50 €uro From September 16 to January 4 at the Museum of Romantic Life (9th), a unique walk behind the scenes of creating the best cartoonist of his time, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780-1867): the exhibition brings together a hundred preparatory drawings selected by Lépront Catherine reserves in the museum Ingres in Montauban.
Writer, novelist, essayist, playwright, author of thirty books, Catherine Lépront drew here a very personal journey, guided by a fascination for the special gesture of the painter, his taste for extravagant expressing profound admiration in particular for studies of the Martyrdom of Saint Symphorien (Autun, Saint-Lazare, 1824).
"Initial ideas to final decisions, compositions together tirelessly to minute details included, there is every step of the process of creating a work, says Ms. Lépront. But the traces left Ingres path of his thought, his wanderings, his indecision, to the countless potential offered to paint the surface. Plus the idea is more accurate the design is refined. The body seems to lose its material, literally for disembodied that it remains essential that its contours, its strict form. As if by Ingres had scrubs successive data unnecessary. "
In its distances or disproportions, the painter reflects the concern and tormented the folly of romance. Ingres in fact, does not hesitate to upset the laws of anatomy such as the rules of perspective, to achieve freedom and modernity.
"Children, maturity, old age, all ages are represented," concludes Catherine Lépront. But also all the emotions, moods and romantic it is a reverie about humanity that, along with a reverie about art - antique, classic and modern already. " |
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