Eugène Grasset Le Saint Pleur. Adoubement du damoisel (Le Saint Pleur. Dubbing the young squire), 1891 Eugène Grasset’s career in illustration took off in 1883 with the publication of Histoire des Quatre Fils Aymon, much admired by book collectors for its…
Eugène Grasset La Sculpture (Sculpture), 1898 The June 1898 special issue of the avant-garde review La Plume was a homage to the sculptor Alexandre Falguière. The review held an exhibition of…
Charles Gleyre Portrait de Jean-Jacques Marquis (Portrait of Jean-Jacques Marquis), 1855 This portrait is painted in the realist tradition of bourgeois portraiture initiated by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres and his Portrait of Monsieur Bertin (1832, now in the…
Giovanni Giacometti Portrait du Dr Henri-Auguste Widmer (Portrait of Dr Henri-Auguste Widmer), 1929 This portrait was acquired in 1994 to add to the set of seven Giacometti paintings bequeathed to the museum in the late 1930s by the…
Gabriel-Constant Vaucher La Mort de Socrate (The Death of Socrates), c. 1798 - 1799 Gabriel-Constant Vaucher, the son of an enamel painter, studied drawing in Geneva before moving to Rome where he trained with his cousin, the painter Jean-Pierre…
On display Renée Green Space Poem #2 (Endless Dreams Triptych), 2009 Renée Green’s multimedia installation Endless Dreams and Water Between explores how desires and dreams have taken shape around islands in literature and history. Colourful banners…
On display Guillaume Pilet My Life as a Parade, 2017 Guillaume Pilet is a multifaceted artist, working in paints, sculpture, ceramics, installations, performances, and opera to explore the language of abstraction and the afterlives of…
Eugène Grasset Concours de fontaine monumentale à ériger à côté d'un Palais de Justice (Entry for a competition to design a monumental fountain to stand alongside a law court), 1885 The Lausanne authorities decided to build a fountain on the Promenade de Montbenon after launching the building works for the Federal Courthouse (now the arrondissement…
Charles Gleyre Cavaliers turcs et arabe (Turks and an Arab on horseback), c. 1838 - 1839 The spring of 1838 saw Charles Gleyre return to Paris after a lengthy tour of the eastern Mediterranean. It took him until 1843 to digest…
Eugène Grasset Femme à la rose (Woman and Rose), c. 1900 Eugène Grasset was something of a paradox. Though considered in his day as the artist who best captured the essence of womanhood, he expressed gross…
Charles Gleyre Esquisse pour "La séparation des apôtres" (Sketch for the Separation of the Apostles), 1844-1845 Charles Gleyre achieved instant success at the 1843 Paris Salon with Le Soir (Evening), an Orientalist reverie that won a Second Class medal and was…
Edouard Girardet Le Retour de la montagne (Return from the Mountain), 1851 The Bernese Oberland developed a busy tourist trade as early as the latter half of the eighteenth century. Local artists would churn out engravings and…
Charles Gleyre Portrait de Madame Arsène Houssaye (Portrait of Mrs. Arsène Houssaye), c. 1845 - 1850 Back in Paris in 1838 after a lengthy absence, Charles Gleyre set about rebuilding his professional network. To do so, he called on longstanding friends,…
Giovanni Giacometti Portrait d'Alberto (Portrait of Alberto), 1921 In 1921, Giovanni Giacometti painted four portraits of his beloved son Alberto, later to become one of the twentieth century's greatest sculptors. He may have…
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.…
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…
Eugène Grasset Calendrier de La Belle Jardinière. Les Mois. Juillet (Calendar for La Belle Jardinière. The Months. July), 1896 In 1896, Eugène Grasset was commissioned by the La Belle Jardinière clothing boutique to produce a calendar. He showed the original watercolours at the Société…
Renée Green ED/HF, 2017 The film ED/HF – Extraterritorial Durations/Harun Farocki in full – can be read as a combined portrait of Green herself and of Harun Farocki. The…
On display Francis Gruber Nu dans l’atelier (Nude in the Studio), 1944 In 1944, the fate of Paris still hung on the uncertain outcome of the Second World War. That year, Francis Gruber painted his favourite model,…
Jean-Léon Gérôme Caravane passant près des colosses de Memnon. Thèbes (Caravan Passing the Colossi of Memnon, Thebes), 1856 Following Napoleon's expedition to Egypt in 1798, Egypt was a source of fascination for scholars, scientists and artists throughout the nineteenth century. When Jean-Léon Gérôme…
Christoph Gossweiler Peinture, vert olive (Painting, Olive Green), 2008 A self-taught painter, Christoph Gossweiler began his career in the mid-1970s, adopting the practice of seriality that played an important role, especially in minimalist art…
Charles Gleyre Les Romains passant sous le joug (Romans Passing under the Yoke) or La bataille du Léman (The Battle of Léman), 1858 Charles Gleyre’s republican convictions explain his enthusiastic acceptance of a commission from the radical new government in his native Canton of Vaud. He was asked…
On display Charles Gleyre Femme turque (Dudo Narikos) [Turkish woman (Dudo Narikos)], 1840 On his return to Paris in 1838 after a lengthy journey in the Mediterranean in the pay of the American John Lowell Jr., Charles Gleyre…
On display Luca Giordano Le jugement de Salomon (The Judgement of Solomon), c. 1670–85 This painting illustrates an episode in the Old Testament. Two prostitutes, who had given birth at the same moment, both claim to be the mother…
Charles Gleyre Autoportrait (Self-Portrait), between 1830 and 1834 Charles Gleyre was a modest, reserved, shy man who rarely painted himself. He found his prominent nose and fleshy lips unattractive and only painted three…
Charles Gleyre Etude d’un Nubien (Study of a Nubian), between 1835 and 1837 Charles Gleyre had been in Rome for five years when, in spring 1834, he had the opportunity to live the dream that obsessed all Romantics:…
On display Giovanni Giacometti Maloja en hiver or Piz Lagrev (Maloja in Winter or Piz Lagrev), 1929 When Ferdinand Hodler died in 1918, Giovanni Giacometti became one of the leading figures on the Swiss German art scene, rivalled only by with Cuno…
