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Jules Desbois , Salomé, c. 1912

Jules Desbois

Salomé, c. 1912

Jules Desbois showed an interest in subjects from Antiquity early in his career, presenting at the 1875 Salon a prize-winning Orpheus that was subsequently acquired…

Carl Milles, Triton, 1925-1930

Carl Milles

Triton, 1925-1930

Carl Milles was a towering figure in Swedish sculpture in the first half of the twentieth century. His early politically committed style eventually turned more…

Alice Bailly, Portrait d'Arthur Honegger au « Roi David » (Portrait of Arthur Honegger at

Alice Bailly

Portrait d'Arthur Honegger au « Roi David » (Portrait of Arthur Honegger at "King David"), 1921-1922

The sonorous, clashing rhythms and strident colours which fill Alice Bailly's work reflect the crucial role music played in her understanding of the world around…

Auguste Renoir , Paysage, le lac (Landscape, the lake), c. 1890

Auguste Renoir

Paysage, le lac (Landscape, the lake), c. 1890

In the early 1860s, landscape painting was a way for Auguste Renoir, then a fledgling artist, to paint out in the open air. He would…

Félix Vallotton, Quatre torses (Four Torsos), 1916

Félix Vallotton

Quatre torses (Four Torsos), 1916

Félix Vallotton was too old to join up in the First World War, choosing instead to explore a burning question for all artists of the…

Félix Vallotton, Les Charbonnières, 1889

Félix Vallotton

Les Charbonnières, 1889

Félix Vallotton, who had been living in Paris since 1882, underwent a crisis in the late 1880s that saw him sink into depression. He faced…

Albert Anker, Le secrétaire de commune (The Commune Secretary), 1875

Albert Anker

Le secrétaire de commune (The Commune Secretary), 1875

Here, Albert Anker paints a pivotal administrative figure in every Swiss commune. In nineteenth-century Switzerland, the commune secretary held considerable power thanks to his legal…

Félix Vallotton, Le palmier, Cagnes (Palm Tree, Cagnes), 1920

Félix Vallotton

Le palmier, Cagnes (Palm Tree, Cagnes), 1920

Félix Vallotton arrived in Cagnes on November 24, 1920. This painting, dating from early December, is one of the first he completed during his visit.…

Albert Anker, Le Nouveau-né (The Newborn), 1867

Albert Anker

Le Nouveau-né (The Newborn), 1867

Albert Anker's charming painting of a family welcoming a new baby dates from the year his own son Ruedi was born. The tightly framed composition…

Félix Vallotton, La bibliothèque (The Bookcase), 1915

Félix Vallotton

La bibliothèque (The Bookcase), 1915

This painting of a woman choosing a book from a shelf is a far cry from Félix Vallotton's Nabi interiors featuring the everyday triumphs and…

Albert Bartholomé , L' Adieu à la vie ou Le Baiser (Farewell to life or The Kiss), 1903

Albert Bartholomé

L' Adieu à la vie ou Le Baiser (Farewell to life or The Kiss), 1903

After fighting in the Franco-Prussian war of 1871, Albert Bartholomé left the army and moved to Geneva to study art with Barthélémy Menn. By 1874,…

Albert Bartholomé , Florence Bartholomé, les yeux clos (Florence Bartholomé, eyes closed), 1919

Albert Bartholomé

Florence Bartholomé, les yeux clos (Florence Bartholomé, eyes closed), 1919

Albert Bartholomé's second wife, née Florence Letessier, proved a fresh source of artistic inspiration, sparking a new vision of womanhood that married the expression of…

Félix Vallotton, Bex, 1896

Félix Vallotton

Félix Vallotton began spending most of the year in Paris in the 1880s. He would return to Switzerland in the summer months, bringing small pieces…

Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, Vue du lac Léman et des Alpes (View of Lake Geneva and the Alps), 1879

Eugène Viollet-le-Duc

Vue du lac Léman et des Alpes (View of Lake Geneva and the Alps), 1879

The renowned architect Eugène Viollet-le-Duc painted this watercolour the year he died, while he was working on the renovation of Lausanne cathedral. The lower half…

Giovanni Giacometti, Bestie da soma (Beasts of burden), vers 1895

Giovanni Giacometti

Bestie da soma (Beasts of burden), vers 1895

In April 1895, Giovanni Giacometti was working on an ambitious painting he planned to show at the fourth national exhibition in Geneva the following year.…

Pierre Bonnard , Beau temps orageux (Fine Stormy Weather), 1910-1911

Pierre Bonnard

Beau temps orageux (Fine Stormy Weather), 1910-1911

At the dawn of the twentieth century, Provence and the Côte d'Azur proved a testing ground for modern art. Vincent Van Gogh described the region…

Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer, Le génie de Ludwig van Beethoven (The Spirit of Ludwig van Beethoven), circa 1906-1910

Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer

Le génie de Ludwig van Beethoven (The Spirit of Ludwig van Beethoven), circa 1906-1910

Beethoven was honoured as a quasi-divine figure as early as the ceremonies held to mark his funeral in 1827. For the Romantic generation, his extraordinarily…

Auguste Renoir , Paysage du Midi (Landscape, Southern France), circa 1910 (?)

Auguste Renoir

Paysage du Midi (Landscape, Southern France), circa 1910 (?)

Auguste Renoir first saw Provence on his way back from a tour of Algeria and Italy in 1881-1882. He visited Paul Cézanne in the port…

Édouard Vuillard, Madame Hessel et Lulu à la porte-fenêtre (Madame Hessel and Lulu by the French Window), circa 1932

Édouard Vuillard

Madame Hessel et Lulu à la porte-fenêtre (Madame Hessel and Lulu by the French Window), circa 1932

This painting is one of Édouard Vuillard's late works. It is an example of the intimate works of the 1930s painted for the artist's own…

Alice Bailly, Le jardin rose (Pink Garden), 1907

Alice Bailly

Le jardin rose (Pink Garden), 1907

Alice Bailly moved from Geneva to Paris in 1906. She settled in rue Boissonade, a cul de sac that was already home to a number…

Félix Vallotton, Le Pharo, Marseille, 1901

Félix Vallotton

Le Pharo, Marseille, 1901

Félix Vallotton and his wife Gabrielle visited Marseilles in the latter half of January 1901, on their way to Cannes to see their friend, the…

Peter Emch, w.I.w.a.c., 1981

Peter Emch

w.I.w.a.c., 1981

Peter Emch studied graphic design in Biel/Bienne from 1960 to 1965, then worked in advertising in Paris and Zurich for a number of years. He…

Maurice Denis, Moscou (Couvent Novodievitchi, la tour rose) (Moscow, the Novodevichy Convent, the Pink Tower), 1909

Maurice Denis

Moscou (Couvent Novodievitchi, la tour rose) (Moscow, the Novodevichy Convent, the Pink Tower), 1909

The Russian school, long dominated by The Itinerants, opened up to Western art at the dawn of the twentieth century. Groups and reviews influenced by…

Charles Gleyre, L'Exécution du Major Davel (The Execution of Major Davel), 1850

Charles Gleyre

L'Exécution du Major Davel (The Execution of Major Davel), 1850

This work, the most monumental of all Charles Gleyre's paintings, was commissioned at the behest of Marc-Louis Arlaud, who founded the Museum in 1841. He…

Jacques Sablet, Scène de la vie romaine or La Joueuse de harpe (Scene from Roman Life or The Harpist), between 1787 and 1789

Jacques Sablet

Scène de la vie romaine or La Joueuse de harpe (Scene from Roman Life or The Harpist), between 1787 and 1789

After settling in Rome, the Swiss artist Jacques Sablet turned away from history painting and spent the late 1780s building his reputation as a genre…

Marc Louis Benjamin Vautier (L'Aîné) , Paysans au musée or À l'exposition (Peasants at the Museum or At the Axhibition), 1867

Marc Louis Benjamin Vautier (L'Aîné)

Paysans au musée or À l'exposition (Peasants at the Museum or At the Axhibition), 1867

Marc Vautier, a native of the Vaud, had been a successful artist in Düsseldorf for fifteen years when he painted this work. He specialised in…

René Auberjonois , Grand nu couché or Nu étendu avec chien (Large reclining nude or Nude reclining with dog), 1922/1923

René Auberjonois

Grand nu couché or Nu étendu avec chien (Large reclining nude or Nude reclining with dog), 1922/1923

On September 30, 1923, the poet Gustave Roud described René Auberjonois in La Gazette de Lausanne as an unfairly overlooked master of ‘pure painting’, adding…

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