Marie et Félix Bracquemond · Dessins d’arts décoratifs

The Musée d’Orsay presents an exhibition of drawings by Marie and Félix Bracquemond devoted to their work in the decorative arts. These sheets show how the two artists prepared compositions intended both for the walls of interiors and for tableware.

Among Marie’s drawings is The Muses of the Arts. The sheet gives an idea of work that was sometimes carried out at a wall scale. In Charles Haviland’s ceramic workshop in Auteuil, the Impressionist painter created two large decorative schemes, now lost. There she worked in slip, applying colored liquid clay with a brush.

Félix directed the workshop. A printmaker, he had already transposed motifs borrowed from Japanese prints into the decoration of the Rousseau service’s plates. The drawings in the exhibition reveal this circulation of ideas between paper and objects. They belong to a collection enriched in 2024 by a donation of nearly two hundred paintings and drawings from the couple’s descendants, followed by acquisitions.

Practical information
- Thursday evening opening until 9:45 PM.
- Closed on Mondays.
- Free admission on December 5 and 6 for the museum’s anniversary, with extended hours until 8 PM on Saturday, December 5.