The Petit Palais is devoting a major exhibition to the Italian artist Giovanni Boldini (1842-1931), whose last retrospective in France dates back more than sixty years. However, the virtuoso portraitist was one of the greatest glories of Paris at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, as an attentive observer of the high society he admired and frequented. An evocative and immersive scenography accompanies a rich tour of 150 works combining paintings, drawings, engravings, costumes and fashion accessories ... Read more
The Petit Palais is devoting a major exhibition to the Italian artist Giovanni Boldini (1842-1931), whose last retrospective in France dates back more than sixty years. However, the virtuoso portraitist was one of the greatest glories of Paris at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, as an attentive observer of the high society he admired and frequented. An evocative and immersive scenography accompanies a rich tour of 150 works combining paintings, drawings, engravings, costumes and fashion accessories lent by international museums and numerous private collections. Through Boldini's work, the exhibition invites visitors to relive the pleasures of the Belle Époque and the effervescence of a capital at the cutting edge of modernity. Close
