Monday, March 30, 2026

Madame de Sévigné / Parisian letters

Anonyme, Le marché aux fleurs, quai de la Mégisserie (detail), vers 1680. Courtesy of Musée Carnavalet

Madame de Sévigné. Parisian letters

15 Apr — 23 Aug 2026 at the Musée Carnavalet in Paris, France

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The Musée Carnavalet – Histoire de Paris is presenting an exhibition devoted to Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, the Marquise de Sévigné (1626- 1696) on the four hundredth anniversary of her birth. Organized in collaboration with a panel of experts comprising specialists on her work and the period, the exhibition is based on a fresh critical approach dedicated to the epistolary work of this renowned figure. It brings together over two hundred pieces: paintings, objects, and drawings, both from Carnavalet’s collections and large French public and private collections alike.

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Van Gogh’s yellow / More than just a color

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Color is reflected light, and among all colors, few are as significant as yellow for Vincent van Gogh, who explored its possibilities during his stay in Arles, in the south of France (1888-1889). It was there that he painted the series of “Sunflowers,” five canvases depicting the flowers in a vase. For the artist, who had left behind the darkness of his early period in the Netherlands, the complexity of this hue moved him deeply and led him to associate it with the brilliance of the sun. What it meant to him and his colleagues, and how it served as a symbol of modernity and independence in the literature and fashion of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, are the questions that the exhibition “Yellow: Beyond Van Gogh’s Color,” at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, seeks to answer until May 17.

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