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.
- Cypresses, 1889© The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Used with permission
- The Card Players, ca. 1890-92© The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Used with permission
- Madame Cézanne (Hortense Fiquet, 1850-1922) in the Conservatory, 1891© The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Used with permission
- The Boulevard Montmartre on a Winter Morning, 1897© The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Bridge over a Pool of Water Lilies, 1899© The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Used with permission
- Self-Portrait, 1906© The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Used with permission
- Pansies, 1918-19© The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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