The theme of this exhibition is the artistic and intellectual world of the mandarins of the 17th and 18th centuries.
Their duties were often onerous, and therefore they frequently tried to escape in time and space by travelling and by collecting works from a past shrouded in nostalgia.
This escape also took the form of what we have called "dreams". Art and friendship; love; nature and freedom – these were the three dreams that Chinese mandarins indulged in from the enclosed space of their offices…

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