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is the archetype of each of us trying to construct our personal space

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to piece together their coherence

At the end of the 1880s

Girodet face à Géricault ou la bataille romantique du Salon de 1819. Catalogue is the archetype of eachAt the 1819 Salon, Girodet's "Pygmalion and Galatea," emblematic of the neoclassical school of art, and Gricault's "Raft of the Medusa," standard bearer of an aesthetic avant garde, clashed. The duel was at the heart of the Romantic battle that was emerging at the time and that would animate the following Salons. It is this major event on the French art scene that the exhibition and the dedicated catalog intend to commemorate around the famous figures