Sous la pluie. Peindre, vivre et rêver

This catalog accompanies the exhibition In the Rain. Painting, Living, Dreaming, presented at the Musée d’arts de Nantes and devoted to artistic representations of rain and atmospheric experience. Bringing together works across painting, drawing, photography, and printmaking, the volume examines how rain reshapes perception, space, and daily life, becoming a powerful vehicle for mood, movement, and modernity.

Rather than treating rain as a simple meteorological phenomenon, the catalog approaches it as an artistic and poetic subject. Essays explore wet streets, reflective surfaces, shifting light, and blurred contours, tracing how artists used rainfall to experiment with atmosphere, temporality, and emotion. The book situates these works within broader cultural, literary, and scientific contexts, highlighting rain’s role in the visual imagination of modern life.

Richly illustrated with high-quality reproductions, this art book functions both as a record of the exhibition and as an independent reference on the visual culture of weather and sensation. It will appeal to collectors and readers interested in French and European art, thematic exhibitions, and the intersection of nature and artistic expression.