Charles Édouard Rothenhaus La femme de Putiphar (Potiphar’s wife), 1880 The Book of Genesis recounts how Joseph, son of Jacob and Rachel, was sold into slavery in Egypt by his brothers. His new owner was…
François Bocion Saint-Saphorin, 1889 This large painting depicts the village of Saint-Saphorin, recognisable from the unfinished church steeple. The brown tones of the stepped Lavaux vineyards and the Alpine…
François Bocion Les Bourla-Papey (The Bourla-Papey Insurrection), undated François Bocion trained under Charles Gleyre in Paris, trying his hand at history painting on his return to Lausanne where he worked for the rest…
François Bocion, Jakob Lorenz Rüdisühli Le prêtre pêchant (Priest angling), 1868-1869 The painter and copperplate engraver Jakob Lorenz Rüdisühli moved to Basel in 1868. There, he set about popularising drawings by leading Swiss artists in several…
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…
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…
Benjamin Samuel Bolomey Portrait d'un jeune patricien (Portrait of a young patrician), c. 1810 ? Unusually for French-speaking Swiss artists of his generation, Benjamin-Samuel Bolomey, a native of Lausanne, emigrated to Holland for a career at the royal court. He…
Jules Blancpain Baigneuses (Women bathing), 1891 Jules Blancpain was born to the famous watchmaking dynasty of the same name and trained in watchmaking in Saint-Imier with a view to joining the…
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…
Leonora Carrington Acrobats, 1981 Leonora Carrington was a wild, rebellious child. She showed an early aptitude for drawing, proved ambidextrous as a painter, and wrote her letters backwards. She…
Rebecca Horn Zen of Raven – Federskulptur (Zen of Raven – Feather Sculpture), 2008 Rebecca Horn made her first kinetic sculptures in the 1980s, building on a major period of creativity following the artist’s graduation from the Hamburg Hochschule…
André Lasserre Panthère (Panther), circa 1926 André Lasserre began his career in Paris as a student of Antoine Bourdelle at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière before moving to Lausanne in…
René Auberjonois Maquette pour le rideau de scène de L’Histoire du Soldat (Scale model stage curtain for The Soldier’s Tale), 1918 In 1916, as the First World War was raging, Pablo Picasso designed a stage curtain for Parade. The show with texts by Jean Cocteau and…
Lubaina Himid Accidental Encounter, 2021 The leading contemporary artist Lubaina Himid was born in Tanzania in 1954. In the 1980s, she became a central figure in the British Black Arts…
On display Banu Cennetoğlu Gurbet’s Diary (27.07.1995 – 08.10.1997), 2016-2017 The Turkish artist Banu Cennetoğlu trained as a photographer. She is interested in classification, access to knowledge, information dissemination and the political aspects of archives…
Anne Rochat Doris Magico’s Nose is Facing Chongqing, chapitre 5 de Doris Magico, 2019 Anne Rochat's art consists essentially of performances developed in response to particular situations and spaces: as she said in 2020, she seeks "the tangible experience…
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…
Félix Vallotton Femme nue lutinant un Silène (Nude woman fondling a Silenus), 1907 As Félix Vallotton left his Nabi period behind, he began to move on to larger formats, producing a series of canvases featuring bathing women, allegories,…
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…
Maurice Denis Septima hora, c. 1903 The painting’s warm, velvety, almost acid hues and thick, matte paintwork make it almost glow. It dates from a period when Maurice Denis was moving…
Maurice Denis Allégorie (Allegory), 1899 Allégorie is the opening lithography in Amour, an illustrated book commissioned by the publisher and art dealer Ambroise Vollard in 1892. When it was eventually…
Otto Charles Bänninger Buste de Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz (Bust of Charles Ferdinand Ramuz), 1942 Otto Charles Bänninger studied sculpture with Franz Wanger in Zurich before moving to Paris in 1920 to join Émile-Antoine Bourdelle's studio at the Académie de…
Aimé-Jules Dalou Le Terrassier (The Road builder), between 1889 and 1898 Aimé-Jules Dalou, a pupil of Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux and contemporary of Auguste Rodin, was a major French sculptor in the latter half of the nineteenth century.…
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…
On display François Bocion Le remorqueur (The Tug), 1867 September 24, 1859. The Lake Geneva tugboat operating company launches the Mercure in Morges harbour as a crowd of onlookers claps and cheers. The steamship,…
François Keiserman Le tombeau de Plautius sur la route de Tivoli (The tomb of Plautius on the road to Tivoli), 1793 François Keiserman arrived in Rome in 1789, financed by the Vaud-based art entrepreneur Louis Ducros who had hired him as a watercolourist at his rapidly…
Auguste de Niederhäusern, dit Rodo Les Initiés (The Initiates), 1898 Auguste de Niederhaüsern studied industrial art and fine art in Geneva before moving to Paris in 1886, where he joined the studios of the sculptors…
