Mysterious caskets

The musée de Cluny – National Museum of the Middle Ages, continues its series of exhibitions around its iconic tapestries, following from a first part devoted to the unicorn, and a second, to the five senses. From September 18, 2019, to January 6, 2020, the exhibition, “Mysterious Caskets. Prints at the time of the Lady and the Unicorn” will take visitors on the footsteps of Jean d’Ypres, the painter behind preliminary drawings for the famous tapestries, inspiring prints for numerous engravings, some of which decorate intriguing caskets. 

Curators: Michel Huynh (Chief Heritage Curator, Musée de Cluny), Séverine Lepape (Director of the Musée de Cluny), Caroline Vrand (Heritage Curator, responsible for 15th- and 16th-century prints, Bibliothèque nationale de France).

An exhibition organised by the Musée de Cluny with the exceptional support of the Bibliothèque nationale de France.