Guided tours of the “L'Art est dans la rue” exhibition at the Musée d'Orsay

With a tailor-made guided tour of the “L'Art est dans la rue” exhibition, organized by the Musée d'Orsay in collaboration with the Bibliothèque nationale de France, come and discover a magnificent retrospective on the art of the color poster in 19th-century Paris.

Organized thematically and almost chronologically, the exhibition provides an insight into the conditions that gave rise to a veritable advertising revolution, which is in many ways at the root of today's consumer society. But because the poster is also a highly diverse and limitless medium, artists have also seized upon it in the service of art or politics.

To visit this exhibition is therefore to evoke the birth of department stores and the leisure society, of targeted advertising before its time, but also of “affichomanie” or the great political battles of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In other words, you'll come face-to-face with Jules Chéret, Théophile Alexandre Steinlen (Le Chat Noir), Alfons Mucha (Sarah Bernhardt), Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Firmin Bouisset (Petit Lu, Chocolat Menier), Jane Atché (Job), Pierre Bonnard, Maurice Denis, Edouard Vuillard, Jossot, and so many others, all served up by posters that are extremely well preserved thanks to the legal deposit ordered by King François I, and guaranteed by the Bibliothèque nationale de France.

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