French Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Ordrupgaard Collection

Monet “is nothing but an eye – but what an eye!”. That is how Paul Cézanne appreciated his colleague Claude Monet, who sought to capture an immediate impression in a given moment in his paintings. For him and other Impressionists, a personal experience from the nature or city and plein-air painting were important. The artworks full of light and colours will be shown at an exhibition, which will present a unique collection of French art from the Ordrupgaard Museumin Denmark.

The display will especially show Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley or Camille Pissarro, but the viewer will also be able to see artistic overlaps with other artistic tendencies. Romantic painting will be represented by Eugène Delacroix and the realistic method by Gustave Courbet or the artists of the so-called Barbizon school, such as Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot and Charles-François Daubigny. The outstanding works from the collection of sixty paintings will also include chef d'oeuvres by post-Impressionists Paul Cézanne and Paul Gauguin.
Curators: Petr Šámal, Petra Kolářová

This exhibition is organized by the National Gallery Prague in collaboration with Ordrupgaard, Copenhagen.


The Canadian exhibition of the Ordrupgaard Collection is presented by the National Gallery of Canada in collaboration with Ordrupgaard and organized by Associate Curator, Erika Dolphin. 

Among the highlights of the exhibition are


Camille Corot, Souvenir of a Pond in the Limousin Region, c. 1855–1860 © Ordupgaard, Copenhagen / Photo Anders Sune Berg

 
Camille Pissarro, Rue Saint-Lazare, Paris, 1897 © Ordupgaard, Copenhagen / Photo Anders Sune Berg.








The Chailly Road through the Forest Fontainebleau, a landscape by Claude Monet;  



Basket of Pears, a still-life by Édouard Manet;  



Portrait of a Young Woman. Vaïte (Jeanne) Goupil, by Paul Gauguin;  



Women Bathing, by Paul Cézanne;



and View from Frederiksborg Castle, by landscape painter Peter Christian Thamsen Skovgaard.


The exhibition also features portraits by two of the best women Impressionist artists:  



Women with a Fan. Portrait of Madame Marie Hubbard, by Berthe Morisot;



and The Convalescent. Portrait of a Woman in White, by Eva Gonzalès