Exhibition at the museum
Beauty, Morals and Voluptuousness in the England of Oscar Wilde
From September 13th, 2011 to January 15th, 2012
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Sainte Cécile [Saint Cecilia], 1895
Collection particulière, c/o Christie's
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From the 1860s to the last, decadent decade of Queen Victoria's reign – she died in 1901 – this movement is seen through the emblematic works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward Burne-Jones, William Morris, James McNeill Whistler, Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley. They all united in a quest to combine artistic creation and lifestyle, a quest that found fertile areas of expression in photography, the decorative arts, literature and modes of dress.
The exhibition is now over.
See the whole program