L’artiste à l’œuvre
Études et esquisses de la collection

This exhibition showed painters and sculptors engaged in their everyday work. Swiss drawings from the 1780s to the 1950s are presented in three sections – Portfolios, The Path to Creation, Innermost Thoughts – and introduce the visitor to some of the stages in the genesis of a work of art.

Academic drawings, projects, roughs, composition sketches and figure studies reveal avenues explored and dead ends sometimes arrived at. The exhibition closes with more personal images bridging the gap between the public and private spheres.

On show are works by Albert Anker, René Auberjonois, Alice Bailly, Balthus, Ernest Biéler,
François Bocion, Gustave Buchet, Paul Cézanne, Émily Chapalay, Jean Clerc, Louis
Ducros, Alberto Giacometti, Giovanni Giacometti, Charles Gleyre, Ferdinand Hodler,
Giuseppe Mazzola, Auguste de Niederhäusern (known as Rodo), Léo-Paul Robert, Louis
Soutter, Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen and Félix Vallotton.

Works have also been generously lent by our friends, by the Musée Jenisch in Vevey,
and the Gustave Buchet Foundation in Lausanne.