Exhibitions: in museums, the fashion for witches is making a place for itself
On display at the Pont-Aven Museum is a splendid redhead, surrounded by alchemy books, preparing a love potion . This painting by Evelyn De Morgan is one of 212 works in the exhibition "Witches (1860-1920): Fantasies, Knowledge, Freedom" (until November 16). that the establishment is presenting this summer, in partnership with the Musée d'Orsay. Focusing on the second half of the 19th century, the exhibition focuses on the positive reversal of this figure from the publication, in 1862, of The Witch by Jules Michelet. After having fascinated dark romanticism, she becomes, under the pen of the historian, a young servant living in osmosis with nature whose secrets she knows, a rebel against whom the prejudices and violence suffered by women have been exacerbated over the centuries.
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