Nuit des Musées 2024: an evening of drawing at the Musée français de la Carte à Jouer (92)

Draw with the Soirées dessinées.

If you're feeling like an Impressionist artist, you'll have the chance to set up your easel in the heart of the museum's collections for an exceptional drawing session with a team of young teachers from the Ecole Nationale des Arts Décoratifs de Paris, who have come to sketch the suburbs using Jean-Constant Pape's canvases as models for an evening.
Come and enjoy a slice of the life of a late 19th-century painter, in the suburbs during the Belle Epoque, when plein-air landscape painting was king.
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Inspired by the École de Barbizon and the Impressionists, this important landscape painter from the Paris region devoted his life to the landscapes of western Paris at the turn of the century, delivering a faithful image of the suburbs between undergrowth, quarry landscapes and country festivals.
The exhibition was made possible by a major restoration campaign carried out by the Musée Français de la Carte à Jouer on the artist's works held in several museums and town halls in the Île-de-France region.
Born in Meudon in 1865, Constant Pape was an early associate of the plein-air painters who came to set up their easels in the clearings and undergrowth of Meudon and Clamart. His father ran an inn where Barbizon landscape painters such as Louis Français, Impressionist friend and patron Antoine Guillemet and Paul Trouillebert converged. Through their contact, he developed a pronounced taste for landscape painting, which he honed by following the teaching of Français and then Guillemet. A stay at Auvers-sur-Oise led him to take an interest in the motifs dear to the Impressionists and to brighten up his palette, in compositions with broad skies or small pochades taken on the spot where he studies the effects of light on water, while remaining faithful to the classical style inherited from his masters, nurturing a deep admiration for Corot. His views of the western Paris region were exhibited annually at the Salon des Artistes français from 1886 to 1914, then in 1920 (and posthumously in 1921), and he was awarded a Gold Medal for a large landscape entitled Les Brillants à Meudon in 1913, preserved in Issy-les-Moulineaux. He supplemented his income by working as a restorer of works of art, while at the same time working on major decorating projects for suburban town halls (Villemomble, Noisy-le-Sec, Clamart, Fresnes, Vanves). He spent some time in the Cotentin region, where he painted from the motif (Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue and Barfleur), then on the Île d'Yeu and in Luxembourg after winning a painting prize.
Three large Salon formats held in the municipal collections (Hôtel de Ville), which will be presented exceptionally at the museum, had been restored in recent years, including his gold medal at the 1913 Salon des Artistes français, Les Brillants à Meudon.
The exhibition will continue in Meudon, at the Musée d'art et d'histoire, with a selection of different works from September 14, 2024 to January 26, 2025.
A catalog co-published with Editions Liénart and a dedicated cultural program (lectures, mediation activities) will accompany the exhibition.

We play with the museum team.

The cabarets and guinguettes on the banks of the Seine were a hive of activity. Bourgeois and populos alike come to enjoy themselves, hoping to bump into some of the celebrities of Parisian bohemia, painters, chansonniers and demi-mondaines. You can stroll around to enjoy the beauty of the Seine landscape, or join a table for a passionate game of cards: Bésigue, Polignac, Carabin or Ecarté. So many salon and casino games where, at the time, money was passed from hand to hand, much to the delight of gentlemen in canotieres and ladies in fancy dress, their heads intoxicated by the sun. But at the Museum, betting is out of the question! You'll be thrilled, but... you'll keep your shirt on.

Sing and listen to the accordion with Lorène Devienne and Aurélien Noël.

The cabarets and guinguettes on the banks of the Seine are a hive of activity. Bourgeois and populos come to amuse themselves, hoping to bump into some of the celebrities of Parisian bohemia, painters, chansonniers and demi-mondaines. You can see them in the paintings by Jean Constant Pape on display at the Museum. Lorène Devienne (vocals) and Aurélien Noël (accordion) will evoke this world with a repertoire of the most famous Parisian songs, by the great French performers, as well as film scores that have become classics of French chanson, always on the theme of Paris and the suburbs.