This is the first exhibition to be dedicated to Renoir's drawings, and highlights the importance of graphic techniques in his artistic development. It also reveals the close relationship between his paintings and his drawings, in particular from the 1880s onwards when he began to move away from Impressionism.

Curatorship

Paul Perrin, Chief Curator and Director of Conservation and Collections, Musée d'Orsay;

Colin B. Bailey, Katharine J. Rayner Director, Morgan Library & Museum, New York;

Anne Distel, Honorary General Curator of Heritage, Musée d'Orsay;

Sarah Lees, Research Associate to the Director, Morgan Library and Museum, New York;

Cloé Viala, Head of Documentary Studies, Musée d'Orsay.

A major figure in impressionism, Pierre Auguste Renoir, like Manet, Degas, Monet and Caillebotte, is regarded as one of the 19th century's great painters of modern life. Between the mid-1860s and the 1880s, he developed a light, fluid manner of painting, bursting with light and color, along with new subjects focusing on relationships between men and women.

This exhibition, co-organized with the National Gallery in London and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, reexamines Renoir's fundamental contributions to impressionism and 19th-century art history through the complex, universal notion of love, the central driving force of his work. It provides a new perspective on paintings that are so well-known that it has become difficult to perceive how radical they are. For the first time since 1985 (the year the last Renoir retrospective was held in Paris, at the Grand Palais), some of the artist's and impressionism's greatest masterpieces will be brought together in France.

Curatorship

Paul Perrin, Chief Curator and Director of Conservation and Collections, Musée d'Orsay;

Christopher Riopelle, Neil Westreich Curator of Post 1800 Paintings, National Gallery, London;

Chiara di Stefano, Associate curator of Post 1800 Paintings at the National Gallery, London;

Katie Hanson, William and Ann Elfers Curator of Paintings, Art of Europe, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston;

• With the participation of

  Lucie Lachenal-Tabellet, Head of Documentary Studies, Musée d'Orsay.

Do you think you know everything about the unicorn? A fantastic animal omnipresent in popular culture, it nonetheless remains full of mysteries. From March 10 to July 12, 2026, the Musée de Cluny will unravel all its facets with the exhibition "Unicorns!".

The exhibition "Unicorns!" is organised by the Musée de Cluny and the GrandPalaisRmn, with the Museum Barberini in Potsdam. It benefits from loans from prestigious international museum institutions such as the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, and the Musée du Louvre.

Curators

Béatrice de Chancel-Bardelot General Curator, Musée de Cluny (Paris, France)
Michael Philipp Chief Curator, Museum Barberini (Potsdam, Germany)

Artist, feminist and avant-garde environmentalist, woman, mother, migrant, marked by mental illness and spiritual quest, Leonora Carrington left behind a legacy as extraordinary as it is radical.

Born in 1917 in Lancashire, England, Leonora Carrington forged her identity through travel, both internal and external. From Florence to Paris, from the South of France to Spain, and finally to Mexico, where she became a cult figure, her extraordinary path nourished a body of work at the crossroads of surrealism, mythology, and esotericism.

This exhibition, bringing together 126 works, is the first major exhibition in France devoted exclusively to Carrington's work. It presents Carrington as a "Vitruvian Woman": a total artist representing a model of harmony and innovation. Her creations merge human and animal, masculine and feminine, giving form to a world where metamorphoses and symbols respond to each other.

Through a chronological and thematic approach, as well as a unique presentation of her diverse visionary creations, the exhibition explores the artist's main themes and interests: her discovery of classical Italian art in Florence during her adolescence, her fascination with the Renaissance, her Celtic and post-Victorian origins, and her involvement in surrealism during her stay in France.

The exhibition thus highlights the exceptional legacy of this perpetual traveler, always in search of self-knowledge.