For its 2025 anniversary season, the Musée Jacques-Émile Blanche's temporary exhibition space features a selection of works on the theme "Pouponne by Jacques-Émile Blanche: representing youth".
During the 1880s and 1890s, Jacques-Émile Blanche produced some twenty portraits of Wanda Zielinska, nicknamed Pouponne. This little girl, from a family close to his studio in Auteuil, gave him and other young models the opportunity to practice the delicate art of depicting children when he was not commissioned to do so. This pivotal moment in his career, when public recognition became apparent, was also characterized by technical experimentation on paper. This temporary illumination therefore links this figure of youth with experiments in pastel and printmaking; a model and medium that J.-É. Blanche stopped using from 1900 onwards.
A complement to the museum's permanent exhibition of still lifes, interior and seascape scenes, portraits and self-portraits, as well as objects that belonged to the artist so attached to the commune of Offranville.
During the 1880s and 1890s, Jacques-Émile Blanche produced some twenty portraits of Wanda Zielinska, nicknamed Pouponne. This little girl, from a family close to his studio in Auteuil, gave him and other young models the opportunity to practice the delicate art of depicting children when he was not commissioned to do so. This pivotal moment in his career, when public recognition became apparent, was also characterized by technical experimentation on paper. This temporary illumination therefore links this figure of youth with experiments in pastel and printmaking; a model and medium that J.-É. Blanche stopped using from 1900 onwards.
A complement to the museum's permanent exhibition of still lifes, interior and seascape scenes, portraits and self-portraits, as well as objects that belonged to the artist so attached to the commune of Offranville.
