Known for its incredible permanent collection of Monet paintings, the Marmottan Museum also organises some very interesting temporary exhibitions.

For their latest, with the Olympics being held in Paris, the on-brand theme is En jeu! Artists and Sport (1870-1930) looking at 60 years of sport in art from impressionism to cubism, with an impressive selection of over one hundred works by Toulouse-Lautrec, Bourdelle, Degas, Monet, Courbet, Caillebotte, Renoir, Rodin, Sisley and more.

Just months before the opening of the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris, sport has infused everything in the city, right down to its museums!

And to see how sport, sportswomen and sportsmen evolved in tandem with art, what better than this exhibition of paintings (and more) that looks at a specific period when sport was becoming more organised and above all more accessible to the masses in Europe, thanks to a reduction in the number of hours worked.

It was also a period when women were gaining power and access to sports that had formerly been forbidden for them.

Part of the official culture offer for the Olympics (l’Olympiade Culturelle Paris 2024) created by the International Olympic Committee, the exhibition includes many important loans from the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, Yale University Art Gallery, the National Gallery of Art of Washington et Philadelphia Museum of Art, and French museums including the Fabre Museum in Montpellier, the Pompidou Centre, Musée d’Orsay, National Sports Museum in Nice and numerous other public and private collections in Europe, the USA and Japan.

In all, over 160 works are on view – paintings, drawings, posters, photos, sculptures…

To dive deeper into the exhibition’s theme, guided visits are on offer, and you can rent the exhibition audioguide in English for 4€.

A catalogue (288 pages) is also available for around 35€ here from your local Amazon.

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The exhibition En jeu! Artists and Sport (1870-1930) is at the Marmottan Museum (here) until 1st September 2024

Open every day except Mondays from 10am-6pm (9pm Thursdays)

Admission: 14€ / 9€ / free for under-7 year olds

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To check out the English press release for the exhibition, simply click the ‘fullscreen’ button at the bottom right of the image below.