French language On the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the birth of Tintoretto (1519-1594), the Musée du Luxembourg celebrates one of the most fascinating painters of the Venetian Renaissance and honours his "early works". The oldest one that we keep in our hands, The Adoration of the Magi, was made when he was not twenty years old. The important commissions of the early 1550s helped to propel him to the forefront: Original Sin for a brotherhood or The Princess, Saint George and Saint Louis for the headquarters of a Venetian administration, near the Rialto. This is a decisive