Exhibition - the capsule - Elizabeth Peyton x Beaux-Arts de Paris

Elizabeth Peyton, in residence at the Louvre since May 2024 and holder of a studio within the museum, has invited a dozen students from the Beaux-Arts de Paris to come and copy Leonardo da Vinci's unfinished masterpiece Saint Anne with her in the museum's galleries.

In dialogue with the Copistes exhibition, in which the artist is taking part, and as part of the partnership between the Musée du Louvre and the Beaux-Arts de Paris, the presentation of the students' drawings and Elizabeth Peyton's work brings together the way in which the work was viewed and the way in which it was copied, allowing us to perceive the contemporary meaning of an intense, creative conversation with the art of the past, alive in the present.