Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin is presenting, since the first of June, the exhibition titled "Nineteenth-Century French Masterpieces from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York", one of the best shows dedicated to this important chapter in art history ever presented in Germany. The curators of the show have on loan a number of 147 works from the MET in New York, signed by some of the greatest names in modern art, such as Ingres, Corot, Courbet, Puvis de Chavannes, Manet, Degas, Pissarro, Monet, Cezanne, Gauguin, Bonnard or Matisse, completed with sculptures by Rodin, Degas or Maillol. This event is truly a great occasion for German art lovers to discover firsthand these works, of this great quality and so far has proven to be a success.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, founded in New York in 1870, houses now one of the best collections of 19 century French art, surpassed only by that at the Musee d'Orsay in Paris. This impressive collection is a full history of French art of that time, from Classicism to Romanticism, from Realism to Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, ending with the first Modernist works at the start of the 20th century. These varied works are presented at the MET in individual rooms.
2007-08-22
