in Chantilly, Dürer in the graphic arts firmament

What a striking force! And what stunning beauties, sometimes terrible, sometimes delicate! They are all there, or almost, like so many myths, tales and sayings: Adam and Eve, The Knight, Death and the Devil, Melancholyhis four nightmarish Horsemen of the Apocalypsehis Saint Jerome in his cell rembranesque before its time, its Rhinoceros, one of the first zoological plates in the modern sense, although the animal is still half fabulous. And again its Stork and his Deer head pierced with an arrowtwo sheets at the height of naturalistic precision.

By presenting in its Jeu de Paume room, arranged in chronological order, what it possesses of his work (40 engravings plus 8 drawings, originally acquired by Colbert for Louis XIV) with a hundred of his prints and twenty of his drawings kept at the National Library of France, the Condé Museum, at the Château de Sweet whipped cream (Oise), shows Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) open book. Because that’s all…