22 September 2026 — 6 December 2026
Marie and Félix Bracquemond: Decorative Arts Drawings
In 2024 Armel and Nicolas Jundt, descendants of the artist couple Marie and Félix Bracquemond, generously donated a significant group of almost 200 paintings and drawings by the two artists to the Musée d’Orsay. Several purchases at public auction the same year completed the gift. Marie Bracquemond (1840–1916) was one of the women of the Impressionist movement, alongside Mary Cassatt and Berthe Morisot. Félix Bracquemond (1833–1914) was among the leading printmakers of his day and also close to Impressionist circles. He is best known for the decoration of the Rousseau dinner service, which marked the rise of Japonisme. From 1872 to 1881 he ran an art ceramics studio in Auteuil, near Paris, for the porcelain manufacturer Charles Haviland (1839–1921). The Auteuil studio specialised in barbotine, or slip decoration, painted with a brush in coloured clays. Marie Bracquemond worked there alongside some twenty other painters and created two monumental decorative schemes that no longer survive. This display presents a selection of their designs for the decorative arts drawn from the recent donation. Curated by Anaïs Alchus, Curator of Decorative Arts, Musée d’Orsay.
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