After two exhibitions dedicated to Jeannot’s Floor, the Museum of Art and History of Sainte-Anne Hospital (MAHHSA) is today highlighting his emblematic works through a renewed reading of the collection. Far from a simple chronological juxtaposition, this exhibition transcends the dates of creation of the works – from 1858 to 2020 – to explore the deep links between art and psychiatry, by destigmatizing creations produced in a hospital context.
For nearly 30 years, MAHHSA exhibitions have favored a thematic approach, bringing works into dialogue with each other and sometimes also with contemporary art. “We want to make these masterpieces speak, by mixing stories, themes and contexts, without reducing them to the illness of their authors,” explains Anne-Marie Dubois, curator of the exhibition. A patient is not limited to his pathology and his work is fully part of the history of art.
This presentation brings together pieces with remarkable formal and narrative analogies: testimonies on the asylum and the hospital, reflections on the history of psychiatry, or even echoes of the first artistic workshops.
Six thematic categories structure the exhibition: history of asylum and refuge; dreams of landscape and adventure; imaginary universes; raw and pretty; the intimate and the living; symbolism.
These 145 drawings and paintings – artists who became patients, patients who became artists, or artists who witness psychiatry – rub shoulders without chronological hierarchy, inviting the visitor to go beyond their preconceptions. The objective is to awaken emotions, affirming that creation transcends illness
Sainte-Anne Hospital Center, 1 rue Cabanis, 75014 Paris – musee@mahhsa.fr from April 16 to July 26, 2026
During temporary exhibitions, the museum is open from Wednesday to Sunday inclusive from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Closed Mondays and Tuesdays.
