Paris museum showcases Tintoretto’s influence on French masters
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The Musée Jacquemart-André in Paris is presenting “Timeless Tintoretto”, the first comprehensive exhibition in France dedicated to the 16th-century Venetian painter Jacopo Robusti, known as Tintoretto.
French artists from Fragonard to Cézanne admired Tintoretto’s dramatic style, and the show explores this connection by placing his work alongside paintings by his French followers. Curators Neville Rowley, Giovanni Carlo Federico Villa, and Pierre Curie organized the exhibition to highlight Tintoretto’s importance beyond his historical rivalry with Titian.
The exhibition features around 40 paintings, drawings, and portraits from collections across Europe, including loans from the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna and the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Caen. A key loan is The Creation of the Animals from the Gallerie dell’Accademia in Venice, secured despite its recent display in another exhibition. One painting, Portrait of a Man, from the Musée des Beaux-Arts d’Orléans, received conservation work to prepare it for transport.
The exhibition culminates with a dialogue between Tintoretto’s self-portrait and copies made by Édouard Manet and Ingres, arguing for Tintoretto’s foundational role in modern painting. The museum’s collection, gathered during a period of intense interest in Venice among writers like Henry James and Marcel Proust, provides a fitting context for understanding Tintoretto’s appeal to 19th-century French artists.
