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The Masterpieces of French Painting from The Metropolitan Museum of Art: 1800-1920
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On view Sunday, February 4 - Sunday, May 6, 2007 at the Audrey Jones Beck Building
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Georges Seurat, French, 1859-1891, Study for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte", 1884-85
The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Bequest of Sam A. Lewisohn, 1951 (51.112.6)
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, is the sole venue in the United States for this sweeping exhibition of French masterpieces from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The exhibition will present 135 works from New York´s Metropolitan Museum´s treasured collection of French painting. The Metropolitan Museum´s French masterpieces are among the best in the world, and are by the greatest artists active in France between 1800 and 1920, with many, such as Ingres, Corot, Courbet, Delacroix, Millet, Monet, Degas, Cézanne, Renoir, Van Gogh, Matisse, and Picasso, represented by multiple works.
"Never before in the history of the Met have we agreed to lend so many of our treasures, some of which are leaving the building for the first—and most probably, the last—time," stated Philippe de Montebello, director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Among the paintings in the exhibition will be three canvases each by van Gogh, Matisse, and Picasso; four each by Ingres and Bonnard; six Renoirs; eight by Degas, nine works each by Cézanne and Manet, and ten each by Corot, Courbet, and Monet.
The entire range of development of 19th-century French art can be traced in this exhibition: early works such as the refined society portraits by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Jacques-Louis Leblanc (1823) and his exquisite Odalisque in Grisaille (1824-34); the dreamily melancholic landscapes of Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot; the formidable drama of Christ Asleep during the Tempest by the great Romantic Eugène Delacroix; and the powerful portraits and landscapes by France´s foremost realist, Gustave Courbet. The painters of the Barbizon School, who reinvigorated the genre of landscape painting, are represented with several works by Jean-François Millet, such as his touching Shepherdess Seated on a Rock (1856), and by Charles François Daubigny, whose plein air paintings already prefigure the developments of the next generation: the Impressionists.
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Lead sponsor: JPMorgan Chase.
Major underwriting is provided by The Hamill Foundation.
Additional generous support is provided by:
The Albert and Margaret Alkek Foundation
The M. D. Anderson Foundation
The Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation
Mr. Charles Butt
Mr. and Mrs. Philip J. Carroll
Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Duncan, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. James C. Flores
Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Kinder
Mr. and Mrs. C. Berdon Lawrence
Mr. and Mrs. Meredith J. Long
Mr. Fayez Sarofim
The Bob and Vivian Smith Foundation
John L. Wortham & Son, L.P. / Chadwick G. Dodd
Mr. and Mrs. Russell M. Frankel
The Wallace Foundation
The Scaler Foundation
Linda K. Finger
Mr. and Mrs. Rodney H. Margolis
Education programs receive generous support from the Favrot Fund.
Related Events:
Annual Beck Lecture: Manet´s Nudes: Olympia and Christ, Pagan and Christian
At the Caroline Wiess Law Building
Thursday, February 8, 2007 6:30 PM
Friday Afternoon Lecture: Edgar Degas
At the Caroline Wiess Law Building
Friday, February 16, 2007 1:30 PM
Friday Afternoon Lecture: Madame Cezanne
At the Caroline Wiess Law Building
Friday, February 23, 2007 1:30 PM
Friday Afternoon Lecture: Manet´s Nudes: Olympia and Christ/Pagan and Christian
At the Caroline Wiess Law Building
Friday, February 9, 2007 1:30 PM
Friday Afternoon Lecture: Queen of Fashion
At the Caroline Wiess Law Building
Friday, March 2, 2007 1:30 PM
Homeschool Workshop: Painting at the MFAH
At the Audrey Jones Beck Building
Tuesday, February 6, 2007 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Saturday Afternoon Lecture: Edgar Degas
At the Caroline Wiess Law Building
Saturday, February 17, 2007 4:00 PM
Saturday Afternoon Lecture: Madame Cezanne
At the Caroline Wiess Law Building
Saturday, February 24, 2007 4:00 PM
Saturday Afternoon Lecture: Queen of Fashion: What Marie-Antoinette Wore to the Revolution
At the Caroline Wiess Law Building
Saturday, March 3, 2007 4:00 PM
Saturday Afternoon Lecture: French Art: Abroad
At the Caroline Wiess Law Building
Saturday, April 21, 2007 4:00 PM
Saturday Afternoon Lecture: French Art: At Home
At the Caroline Wiess Law Building
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:00 PM
Special Concert: Portraits d´Amour A Tout Ages
At the Caroline Wiess Law Building
Sunday, February 18, 2007 4:00 PM
Spring Break Creation Station: In the Jungle with Rousseau
At the Audrey Jones Beck Building
Friday, March 16, 2007 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Artful Thursday: A Walk through the Park of French Painting
At the Caroline Wiess Law Building
Thursday, February 15, 2007 6:30 PM
Artful Thursday: Author Ross King on The Birth of Impressionism
At the Caroline Wiess Law Building
Thursday, January 18, 2007 6:30 PM
Friday Afternoon Lecture: Monet and the Impressionist Landscapes of Time
At the Caroline Wiess Law Building
Friday, January 26, 2007 1:30 PM
Friday Afternoon Lecture: Odalisques, Goddesses and Nudes in French Art
At the Caroline Wiess Law Building
Friday, January 19, 2007 1:30 PM
Friday Afternoon Lecture: Realism, Religion, and Revolution in 19th-Century French Painting
At the Caroline Wiess Law Building
Friday, February 2, 2007 1:30 PM
Homeschool Workshop: Painting at the MFAH
At the Audrey Jones Beck Building
Tuesday, February 20, 2007 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Members Daytime Preview
At the Audrey Jones Beck Building
Saturday, February 3, 2007 10:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Members Preview Lecture
At the Caroline Wiess Law Building
Saturday, February 3, 2007 6:00 PM
Members Preview Party
At the Audrey Jones Beck Building
Saturday, February 3, 2007 6:00 PM
MFAH/Rice University Lecture Course
At the General Museum Info
Thursday, February 8, 2007 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Thursday, February 15, 2007 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Thursday, February 22, 2007 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Thursday, March 1, 2007 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Thursday, March 8, 2007 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Thursday, March 15, 2007 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Thursday, March 22, 2007 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Thursday, March 29, 2007 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Thursday, April 5, 2007 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Thursday, April 12, 2007 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Thursday, April 19, 2007 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Thursday, April 26, 2007 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Patron-Plus Members Preview Lecture
At the Caroline Wiess Law Building
Friday, February 2, 2007 6:00 PM
Saturday Afternoon Lecture: Monet and the Impressionist Landscapes of Time
At the Caroline Wiess Law Building
Saturday, January 27, 2007 4:00 PM
Saturday Afternoon Lecture: Odalisques, Goddesses, and Nudes in French Art
At the Caroline Wiess Law Building
Saturday, January 20, 2007 4:00 PM
Starbucks Presents A Salon Series at the MFAH
At the Audrey Jones Beck Building
Saturday, April 14, 2007 8:00 PM - 12:01 AM
Saturday, May 5, 2007 8:00 PM - 12:01 AM
Teacher Workshop: French Painting from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
At the Audrey Jones Beck Building
Saturday, March 3, 2007 8:30 AM - 3:00 PM
Teacher Workshop: French Paintings from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
At the Audrey Jones Beck Building
Saturday, February 24, 2007 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
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