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Pierre-Auguste
Renoir
(French, 1841–1919):
Grand Canal, Venice, 1881.
Oil on canvas
21 1/4 by 25 5/8 inches.
Bequest of Alexander Cochrane 19.173 |
French
Impressionism and Boston:
Masterworks from the Museum of Fine Arts
November 19, 2005–March 5, 2006
This exceptional exhibition is one of the most important presentations of Impressionism ever mounted in the State of
Florida.
After
opening in Nagoya, Japan, in April 2004, the exhibition will
move to the Royal Academy this summer before making its American
debut at the Norton Museum of Art on November 19, 2005. It will
illuminate the process of
artistic education and assimilation exemplified by the Museum
of Fine Arts, Boston’s impressive collection of both
French and American Impressionists.
Eloquently surveying the development of Impressionism in both France and America,
French Impressionism and Boston will tell the fascinating story of how the latest and most advanced examples of French
art came to be collected by eager Bostonians during the second half of the nineteenth century. Boston was home to some
of the best-informed and most progressive collectors of modern painting in the United States.
They were among the
first to embrace the successive waves of stylistic innovation occurring in France, and, along with their peers in New
York, the most avid collectors of modern French art.
Not surprisingly, the Museum of Fine Arts was the first American
museum to organize a Monet retrospective (in 1911) and to purchase a work by Edgar Degas, Race Horses at Longchamps,
1871, included in this exhibition.
French Impressionism and Boston consists of fifty-three paintings;
among them are twelve Monets, including Camille Monet and a Child
in the Artist’s Garden at Argenteuil, 1875, Meadow with Haystacks
near Giverny, circa 1875 and Waterlilies, 1905. Other highlights include Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot’s Forest of
Fontainebleau, 1846; Edouard Manet’s Street Singer, circa 1862; Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s Grand Canal, Venice, 1881;
Childe Hassam’s Grand Prix Day, 1887; and John Singer Sargent’s
Helen Sears, 1895. French Impressionism and Boston: Masterworks
from the Museum of Fine Arts has been organized by the Museum
of Fine Arts, Boston.
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Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917):
Race Horses at Longchamp, 1871.
Oil on canvas
13 3/8 by 16 1/2 inches.
S. A. Denio Collection 03.1034 |
Claude Monet (French,
1840–1926)
Water Lilies (Water Lilies I), 1905.
Oil on canvas
35 1/4 by 39 1/2 inches
Gift of Edward Jackson Holmes
39.804 |
Edmund Charles Tarbell (American, 1862–1938)
Mother and Child in a Boat, 1892.
Oil on canvas
30 1/8 by 35 inches
Bequest of David P. Kimball in memory of his wife Clara Bertram Kimball 23.532 |
John Singer Sargent (American, 1856–1925)
Helen Sears, 1895.
Oil on canvas
65 7/8 by 36 inches.
Gift of Mrs. J. D. Cameron Bradley 55.1116 |
