The graphic arts cabinet offers a clinking form around the iconography of the ages of life and the hours of the day and the night. Since antiquity, the authors, doctors or philosophers have divided human life into three, four or seven ages. This theme is very successful with artists as Marten's works show your or those of Henry Moore, inspired by Shakespeare. Then come the allegories of the day and night, including a series of gouaches created by the famous painter of the Renais Sance, Raphaël, to decorate the Vatican palace. They are compared to allegories imagined by Ferdinand Hodler and Alfons Mucha.
The exhibition is finally interested in variations in the representations of the four main moments of the day (morning, noon, afternoon, evening/night) in the 17th and 18th centuries in particular, through the works of Charles Le Brun, Hendrick Goltzius, Joseph Vernet and William Hogarth.