AIC Cultural Events offers members, family and friends a private guided tour:

We encourage AIC members living in Canton Vaud to participate in this “local” Cultural Event.

British Paiting from Turner to Whistler - with guide in English - followed by lunch

The Fondation de l’Hermitage - Lausanne

Saturday 25 May 2019

Guided tour in English at 10H30

Lunch at Café-restaurant L'esquisse at 12H30- 14H30

2 route de Signal, Lausanne (VD)

Transportation: Free Parking du Signal, pl des Fêtes de Sauvabelin – this is located above the museum, so allow time to walk down to the museum. Or Bus 16 – arrêt “Hermitage.”

Program: 10H15: RDV at the museum. 10H30: Exhibition with guided tour in English

12H30 – 14H30:  Café-restaurant L'esquisse for a three-course lunch, offering three choices of entry; three choices of main course; and three choices of dessert, with water and café.

Event pricing:  

This is always an enjoyable day out with Club members and friends. But booking just the museum visit is possible. Note: Amis, Raiffeisen, press etc. rebate – see Robert at entry.

Museum visit and lunch: Member and partner: CHF 90 each. Non-member guests: CHF 110 each. This includes museum visit with guide followed by three-course lunch. Hopefully outdoors!

Museum visit only: Member and partner: CHF 30. Non-member guest: CHF 40.

Booking and payment:  Deadline May 22 – Club office is closed on Friday. Limited space, so book early.

The Fondation de l’Hermitage continues its exploration of the great centres of western art in the 19th century with an exhibition devoted to British painting from Turner to Whistler, taking in the Pre-Raphaelites. Nearly 60 paintings, on loan from the most prestigious collections in the United Kingdom and shown in Switzerland for the first time, offer an unrivalled survey of art produced during the golden age of the British Empire, highlighting its captivating originality.

Alongside Turner, whose dazzling oeuvre anticipated Impressionism, the exhibition pays tribute to artists who won renown through landscape painting, such as Atkinson Grimshaw, Baker Pyne, Brett, and Martin.

The exhibition places a special emphasis on the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (Millais, Rossetti) as well as the Aesthetic Movement (Burne-Jones, Watts), two circles of artists who found powerful inspiration in literature, mythology and antiquity (Alma-Tadema, Egley, Hughes, Sandys, Scott).

The industrial revolution and the rapid development of cities and public transport give rise to compelling scenes that bear witness to different facets of modern life (Emslie, Fletcher, Hicks, Joy) along with its social repercussions (Collinson, Holl, Mulready, Nelson O’Neil, Walker).

The survey concludes with a section dedicated to Sargent and Whistler, cosmopolitan artists of American origin: bold and brilliant portrait painters, among the most celebrated of their era.

A fine collection of photogravures complements the paintings in the exhibition, showcasing the great names in British photography: Cameron, Emerson, Frith, Hill & Adamson, Howlett, Robinson and Talbot. A series of photographic portraits of Jane Morris, muse to the Pre-Raphaelites, completes the selection.