“Six months of my life gone up in smoke”: a work by the painter Guillaume Bresson destroyed in the Los Angeles fires

Thirty-five paintings, often very large in size, of stunning technical virtuosity, which represent life in the neighborhoods, fights or meetings in parking lots, but with a very classic touch, from an artist nourished by Poussin and the Caravaggio. Christophe Leribault, boss of the Château de Versailles, former President of the Musée d’Orsay, had the idea of ​​bringing them into dialogue with large colonial paintings by the 19th century painter Horace Vernet in the Africa rooms of the Château.