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Special Exhibition Gallery - The Masterpieces of French Painting, 1800-1920

from The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has loaned 135 works from its vast collection of French paintings to The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (February 4-May 6, 2007) and the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin (May 30-October 7, 2007) while its own galleries are being renovated. Called The Masterpieces of French Painting from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1800-1920 in the United States, this ticketed special exhibition surveys the development of painting in France in the Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries. What follows is a selection of exhibition highlights for your viewing enjoyment.

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© The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Used with permissionOdalisque in Grisaille,1824-34© The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Used with permissionMademoiselle V... in the Costume of an Espada, 1862© The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Used with permissionThe Third-Class Carriage, ca. 1863-65© The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Used with permissionOedipus and the Sphinx, 1864
© The Metropolitan Museum of ArtJo, La Belle Irlandaise (Johanna Hiffernan, born 1842/43), 1866© The Metropolitan Museum of ArtLa Grenouillere, 1869© The Metropolitan Museum of ArtSibylle, ca. 1870© The Metropolitan Museum of ArtThe Dancing Class, probably 1871
© The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Used with permissionJean Monet (1867-1913) on His Hobby Horse, 1872© The Metropolitan Museum of ArtBoating, 1874© The Metropolitan Museum of ArtStill Life with Peaches, 1881© The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Used with permissionStudy for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte," 1884-85
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