Digital and multimedia Digital tours of the exhibition, as well as online lectures, were available to internet users in April, giving the public access to the exhibition content while cultural venues remained closed. Coupled with audio commentary, these tours presented nearly 70 works on display at the museum, in very high definition and with the ability to take a closer look with a powerful zoom function. In total, nearly 1,000 independent tours and 200 guided tours were conducted between April and August 2021.
To accompany the exhibition on social media, the Musée du Luxembourg called on Nantes-based illustrator Marie Boiseau. Inspired by women, nature and everyday life, Marie Boiseau created five animated stickers for Instagram, making the exhibition's themes resonate with current debates. A five-part web series was also created, in which Margaux Brugvin, an influencer with 47,700 followers, deciphered the exhibition with a particular focus on four of the artists presented. This series has amassed over 280,000 views on all of the Rmn Grand Palais social networks.
Starting in March, a MOOC entitled Peintres femmes à travers les âges (Women painters through the ages) gave the public more insight into the exhibition theme, pending the reopening of cultural venues. Featuring more than 160 high-definition photographs of works as well as videos, resource documents and quizzes, this MOOC covered history from the Middle Ages to the 20th century, highlighting the work of more than 20 women painters. Co-produced by the Rmn Grand Palais, France Télévisions and Zadig Productions, the documentary Les Peintres femmes, entre ombre et lumière, 1780 1830 (Women Painters, between shadow and light, 1780 1830) took viewers on a journey through 18th- and 19th- century France, a time when the art scene opened up to women. The 52-minute film also showed the upheavals caused by the French Revolution in the world of artistic creation, through the works of Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, Marguerite Gérard, Constance Mayer and many others.
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