Venue: Le Petit Palais Date: 15 September 2017 – 8 April 2018 A selection of close to 150 pastels for the first time offers an exhaustive overview of the main artistic currents of the second half of the 19th-century, from Impressionism to Symbolism. The exhibition showcases the collection’s best paintings, including the works of Berthe Morisot, Auguste Renoir, Paul Gauguin, Mary Cassatt, and Edgar Degas; along with symbolist artists such as Lucien Levy-Dhurmer, Charles Leandre, Alphonse Osbert, Emile-Rene Menard, and a particularly remarkable collection of works by Odilon Redon; as well as society painters such as James Tissot, Jacques-Emile Blanche, Victor Prouve, and Pierre Carrier-Belleuse. The majority of the pieces…