The Delacroix Museum, not far from our hotels, has a new exhibition explorant the stages of artistic creation, and asking the question of how we can differentiate an original work from a copy or reproduction, or are all works of art to some degree copies and reproductions?

Telling fakes from the real deal isn’t always easy in art, nor is knowing exactly what makes a piece of art 100% ‘authentic’ – artists can reference others, copy or be inspired by other works, learn how to create from one artist and retain part of the tutor’s influence in their style…

Est-ce un Delacroix? L’art de la copie (Is that a Delacroix? The Art of Copying) at the Delacroix Museum explores the similitudes, deliberate or not, in works by the artist and those he inspired, with a different them for each room: Delacroix ? Apparences can be deceptive in Delacroix’s bedroom, D’après Delacroix in the living room, and Delacroix, not copied but copier in the dining room, with sketches and preparatory drawings shown in the workshop.

Is an artist’s signature sufficient to guarantee authenticity? If a benefactor commissions a painting on a certain theme, or a painting is made explicity to be sold in a show, is it 100% the artist’s work and vision?

The exhibition will attempt to address and answer some of these interrogations.

Linked with the exhibition, you may be interested by :
— a conference (in French) De Goya à Delacroix. Les Caprices dans la France du 19^e siècle on 6th March at 6.30pm with Paula Fayos-Pérez (15€, book here),
— free guided visits available one Saturday per month (15th March, 5th April, 3rd May and 14th June),
— a special guided visit on 28th April at 6.30 and 7.30pm – At Your Service Monsieur Delacroix – in the company of Eugène Delacroix’s valet, cook and gardener! (14€, book here),
— a writing workshop on 11th March…

All the info on the events on offer can be found here.

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The exhibition Est-ce un Delacroix? L’art de la copie (Is that a Delacroix? The Art of Copying) is at the Delacroix Museum (here) until 23rd June 2025

Open every day except Tuesdays from 9.30am-5.30pm (9pm the first Thursday of the month, except August). Closed 1st May

Admission: 9€ (or 22€ with combined entrance to the Louvre)

Free entry the first Sunday of the month and 14th July

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