When the École des Beaux-Arts was forbidden to them, how did women train in art during the second half of the 19th century?

From November 28, 2024 to April 28, 2025, the museum is devoting an exhibition dedicated to Jean-Jacques Henner's female students, who followed the painter's teachings. It's an opportunity to give women artists their rightful place, to tackle subjects such as their apprenticeship, their professionalization, and to highlight their works and their links with Jean-Jacques Henner.

Displayed throughout the museum's spaces, the exhibition focuses on highlighting the careers of these women artists embodied by some forty emblematic, often previously unpublished works.

Thematically and pedagogically, the exhibition explores the issues of apprenticeship, sisterhood and filiation. By penetrating the intimacy of this women's studio, visitors are invited to gain a better understanding of how a woman artist was trained and worked at the end of the 19th century.