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Jacques Sablet, Le Colin-maillard (Blind man’s buff), circa 1790

Jacques Sablet

Le Colin-maillard (Blind man’s buff), circa 1790

This painting was shown at the Paris Salon in year V of the French Revolution (i.e. 1796) and purchased in 1798 by Napoleon’s uncle Joseph…

Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen, Soulaud (Drunkard). Colour proofs for Le Mirliton, issue 123, 18 August 1893, 1893

Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen

Soulaud (Drunkard). Colour proofs for Le Mirliton, issue 123, 18 August 1893, 1893

Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen met the performers at the legendary Chat Noir cabaret soon after he came to Paris in the early 1880s, and soon became the…

Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen, Le Veau d'or (The Golden Calf), 1896

Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen

Le Veau d'or (The Golden Calf), 1896

February 18, 1896, was the closing day of carnival, and the streets of Paris still rang with the noise of the riotous parade. To mark…

Jean-Pierre Saint-Ours, Esquisse pour Les Mariages germains (Sketch for The Germanic Wedding), between 1784 and 1786

Jean-Pierre Saint-Ours

Esquisse pour Les Mariages germains (Sketch for The Germanic Wedding), between 1784 and 1786

Jean-Pierre Saint-Ours, born in Geneva and trained in Paris, was awarded the Prix de Rome in 1780. However, as a Swiss Protestant, he was not…

Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen, Le Rêve (The Dream), 1890

Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen

Le Rêve (The Dream), 1890

This poster for a ballet at the Académie nationale de musique in Paris is typical of the craze for all things Japanese in the last…

Louis Soutter, Anges musiciens (Angel Musicians), between 1931 and 1937

Louis Soutter

Anges musiciens (Angel Musicians), between 1931 and 1937

The 1930s saw Louis Soutter produce thirty or so drawings in dialogue with the classical repertoire, particularly the Italian schools of the thirteenth to sixteenth…

Louis Soutter, L'américaine doit être plus grande... (The American woman must be bigger...), between 1930 and 1937

Louis Soutter

L'américaine doit être plus grande... (The American woman must be bigger...), between 1930 and 1937

Louis Soutter studied fine art in Geneva and Paris before setting out for New York, where he planned to set up an art and interior…

Jean-Frédéric Schnyder, Ein Freund (A Friend), 1986

Jean-Frédéric Schnyder

Ein Freund (A Friend), 1986

Jean-Frédéric Schnyder represented Switzerland at the Venice Biennale in 1993, exhibiting a series of 119 small-format oil paintings of views from motorway bridges (Wanderung, 1991-1992).…

Edouard-Marcel Sandoz, Chien danois (Great Dane), 1911

Edouard-Marcel Sandoz

Chien danois (Great Dane), 1911

Édouard Sandoz studied at the École des arts industriels in Geneva before moving to Paris in January 1904. There, he took private classes with the…

Denis Savary , Franz, 2019

Denis Savary

The early twenty-first century saw Denis Savary develop a body of work hybridising references gleaned from his immediate surroundings, art history, and pop culture. The…

Denis Savary , Untitled, 2012

Denis Savary

Denis Savary initially became interested in video and drawing for their ‘practical and transportable’ side, as he explained in a 2016 interview. In the early…

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…

Kiki Smith , Rosary, 1994

Kiki Smith

The human body and its workings, representations, and social status are at the heart of the American artist Kiki Smith's art. Since the early 1980s,…

Hans Sandreuter, Abend (Evening), 1900

Hans Sandreuter

Abend (Evening), 1900

Hans Sandreuter received academic training in Munich, having travelled there in 1873 on the recommendation of his compatriot Arnold Böcklin. He later followed Böcklin to…

Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen

Paris. Grand roman inédit par Émile Zola. Supplément gratuit du Journal (Paris. Brand new novel by Émile Zola. Free supplement for Le Journal), 1897

Like Félix Vallotton, Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen was a Swiss artist who moved to Paris, where he regularly used the illustrated press as an outlet for his…

Yoshishige Saito , Peinture (Painting), 1963

Yoshishige Saito

Peinture (Painting), 1963

Yoshishige Saito, like his contemporary Jirō Yoshihara, played a pivotal role in developing abstract art in Japan. He began painting as a teen, discovering an…

Jean-Pierre Saint-Ours, Le tremblement de terre (The Earthquake), 1806

Jean-Pierre Saint-Ours

Le tremblement de terre (The Earthquake), 1806

Trained in Paris in the studio of Joseph-Marie Vien, Saint-Ours set up in Rome in 1780. In 1792 he returned to Geneva to fight for…

Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen, Fortifs (Fortifications), 1886

Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen

Fortifs (Fortifications), 1886

When Paris was modernised during the Second Empire, the poorest sectors of the population were driven out of the city's historic centre. Like Vincent van…

Jacques Sablet, Le peintre dans son atelier avec ses parents (The Painter in his Studio with his Parents), 1781

Jacques Sablet

Le peintre dans son atelier avec ses parents (The Painter in his Studio with his Parents), 1781

Jacques Sablet was thirty-two when he took the painful decision to move on from history painting, having moved to Rome in a failed attempt to…

Jacques Sablet, Portrait de famille avec la Basilique de Maxence (Family Portrait with the Basilica of Maxentius), 1791

Jacques Sablet

Portrait de famille avec la Basilique de Maxence (Family Portrait with the Basilica of Maxentius), 1791

This painting, the companion piece to the Museum's Portrait de famille avec le Colisée (Family Portrait with the Colosseum, 1791), similarly shows a group of…

Jacques Sablet, Autoportrait (Self-Portrait), circa 1778

Jacques Sablet

Autoportrait (Self-Portrait), circa 1778

The soft brushwork and warm brown tones in this self-portrait of Jacques Sablet in his travelling coat are typical of the artist's first period, influenced…

Pierre Schwerzmann , Sans titre (Untitled), 2010

Pierre Schwerzmann

Sans titre (Untitled), 2010

Since the 1970s, Pierre Schwerzmann has been exploring the condition of painting as a space of perception rather than as a cultural object. At times…

Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen, Trottin sous la pluie (Delivery Girl in the Rain), 1898

Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen

Trottin sous la pluie (Delivery Girl in the Rain), 1898

The four thousand or so works in Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen’s print oeuvre made use of all the mechanical and photomechanical reproduction techniques available to him at…

Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen, Guerre à la guerre (War at War), between 1916 and 1920

Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen

Guerre à la guerre (War at War), between 1916 and 1920

This drawing poignantly reworks two pieces of art that were a lifelong inspiration for Steinlen: the painting La Liberté guidant le peuple (Liberty Leading the People)…

Louis Soutter, Amants. Aurons-nous? un logis d’hiver (Lovers. Will We Have? A Winter Abode), between 1937 and 1942

Louis Soutter

Amants. Aurons-nous? un logis d’hiver (Lovers. Will We Have? A Winter Abode), between 1937 and 1942

Louis Soutter captures images in movement, freezing them for all eternity. A constant flux of black silhouettes, doomed to eternal rootlessness, are forced to keep…

Esther Shalev-Gerz, White Out – Between Telling and Listening, 2002

Esther Shalev-Gerz

White Out – Between Telling and Listening, 2002

Esther Shalev-Gerz was born in Lithuania, brought up in Israel, and now lives in Paris. Her art explores the construction of individual and collective memories.…

Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen, Les échappés de l’enfer II (Survivors of Hell), 1917

Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen

Les échappés de l’enfer II (Survivors of Hell), 1917

Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen was fifty-five years old when Germany declared war on France on 3 August 1914, ushering in the twentieth century’s litany of horrors. The…

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