EXHIBITION

The Disasters of War 1800-2014

from May 28, 2014 to October 6, 2014

This exhibition looks at how artists contributed to a growing disenchantment with war, a movement initiated at the turn of the nineteenth century during the Napoleonic campaigns.

War has always occupied a core place in societal values, yet its necessity and inevitability has been increasingly discredited. While scenes of heroic battles had predominated in art, war began to be represented from every angle, including its most atrocious consequences on people, animals, nature, cities, and things.

In twelve sequences, the exhibition charts the major milestones in this little-known history, through some twenty conflicts and four hundred and fifty works by almost two hundred artists.

EXHIBITION

Eugène Delacroix, “the most legitimate of Shakespeare’s sons”

from March 26, 2014 to August 31, 2014

A cultured artist, Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863) was also an attentive theatergoer, his curiosity kindled by the issues surrounding the revival of the French stage during the 1820s­–30s.

The Musée Delacroix is very fortunate in that it holds all of the lithographic stones designed by the painter. To mark the 450th anniversary of the birth of William Shakespeare, commemorated in Paris, the Musée Eugène-Delacroix is to exhibit these rarely displayed lithographic stones, and the lithographs produced from them. The museum’s other Shakespeare-related works will also be on display, including the highly moving Romeo and Juliet at the tomb of the Capulets.