Splendeurs et misères. Images de la prostitution 1850-1910. Protohistoire Texts and archaeological reality do

Texts and archaeological reality do not allow us to know precisely the daily activity of embalmers

crossed the Pyrenees

L’exposition propose une sélection de quarante et un tableaux des anciens Pays-Bas méridionaux du « Siècle d’Or qui regroupe tous les grands genres

which is the journal of a more intimate mourning

Splendeurs et misères. Images de la prostitution 1850-1910. Protohistoire Texts and archaeological reality doOn the occasion of the first major event devoted to the theme of prostitution, Splendeurs et misres. Images de la prostitution en France, 1850 1910 traces the way in which French and foreign artists, fascinated by the actors and sites of this social phenomenon, constantly sought new pictorial means to represent its realities and fantasies. From Manet's Olympia to Degas's L'Absinthe, from the brothel forays of Toulouse Lautrec and Munch to the daring