The Petit Palais is currently 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 such as the Giovanni Boldini Museum in Ferrara, the Museo di Capodimonte in Naples, the National Portrait Gallery in London, the Musée d'Orsay, the MAD and many others, as well as numerous private collections.
The Palais Galliera is also honoured to be among the lenders for this exhibition, which invites the public to relive the pleasures of the Belle Époque and the effervescence of a capital at the cutting edge of modernity, through the magnificent work of Boldini.
VISITOR INFORMATION :
"Boldini. Pleasures and days" exhibition
From 29 March to 24 July 2022
Getting there
Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris
Avenue Winston-Churchill, 75008 Paris
By metro: lines 1 and 13 (Champs-Élysées Clemenceau) / line 9 (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
By RER: line C (Invalides)
By bus: lines 28, 42, 72, 73, 80, 83, 93
By Vélib': Station Petit Palais n°8001
Opening hours
Tuesday to Sunday from 10am to 6pm
Nocturne on Friday until 9pm
Closed on May 1st and July 14th
Rates
Full price: 14 euros / Reduced price: 12 euros
Booking your visit is recommended and information is available on : www.petitpalais.paris.fr
