Old Masters to Monet
December 13, 2011-April 29, 2012
Don't miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to view the first full-scale survey of the Wadsworth Atheneum's distinguished collection of French paintings. This exhibition of fifty masterpieces provides a comprehensive history of French art and features paintings by Chardin, Monet, Corot, Bouguereau, Degas, Renoir, Manet, Pissarro, Géricault, van Gogh and other artists, many of whom are also represented in the permanent collections of the D'Amour Museum. Learn More About this Exhibit
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Claude Monet
French, 1840 - 1926 The Beach at Trouville
1870 Oil on Canvas, 22 x 25 5/8 in.
The Ella Gallup Sumner and Mary Catlin Sumner
Collection Fund, 1948.116
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Louis Anquetin
French, 1861-1932 Avenue de Clichy
1887 Oil on paper and canvas, 27 1/8 x 21 in.
The Ella Gallup Sumner and Mary Catlin Sumner
Collection Fund, 1966.7
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William Adolphe Bourguereau
French, 1825-1905 Idyll: Family from Antiquity
1860 Oil on canvas, 23 ½ x 19 in.
Gift of Charles E. Gross in memory of his
brother W.H. Gross, 1913.1
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Workshop of Jacques Louis David
French, 1748-1825 Lictors Bring Back to Brutus the
Bodies of His Sons
c. 1789 Oil on canvas, 27 13/16 x 35 ¾ in.
The Ella Gallup Sumner and Mary Catlin Sumner
Collection Fund, 1934.34
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Théodore Géricault
French, 1791-1824 The Village Forge
c. 1822 Oil on canvas, 20 x 24 ¼ in.
The Ella Gallup Sumner and Mary Catlin Sumner
Collection Fund, 1949.444
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Jean-Baptiste Greuze
French, 1725-1805 Indolence (La Paresseuse Italienne)
1757 Oil on canvas, 25 ½ x 19 11/16
The Ella Gallup Sumner and Mary Catlin Sumner
Collection Fund, 1934.11
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Elizabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun
French, 1755-1842 The Duchesse de Poignac
Wearing a Straw Hat
1782 Oil on canvas, 35 ¾ x 27 ¾ in.
The Ella Gallup Sumner and Mary Catlin Sumner
Collection Fund. Acquired in Honor of
Kate M. Sellers, eighth Director of the
Wadsworth Atheneum, 2000-2003; 2002.13.1
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Claude Gellée, called Claude Lorrain
French, 1600-1682 Saint George and the Dragon
c. 1641 Oil on canvas, 44 x 58 ½ in.
The Ella Gallup Sumner and Mary Catlin Sumner
Collection Fund, 1937.2
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Claude Monet
French, 1840 - 1926 Nympheas, Water Landscape
1907 Oil on Canvas, 31 7/8 x 36 ¼ in.
Bequest of Anne Parrish Titzel, 1957.622
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Camille Pissarro
French, 1830 - 1903 Flooded Fields at St.-Ouen l'Aumône
1873 Oil on canvas, 34 x 40 ¼ (framed)
The Ella Gallup Sumner and Mary Catlin Sumner
Collection Fund, 1966.315
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir
French, 1841 - 1919 Monet Painting in His Garden
at Argenteuil
1873 Oil on canvas, 18 3/8 x 23 ½ in.
Bequest of Anne Parrish Titzell, 1957.614
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Louis-Rolland Trinquesse
French, 1745-c. 1800 An Elegant Interior with Two Ladies and a Gentleman
1776 Oil on canvas, 38 x 48 in.
The Ella Gallup Sumner and Mary Catlin Sumner
Collection Fund, 2006.20.1
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Vincent van Gogh
Dutch, 1853 - 1890 Self-Portrait
c. 1887 Oil on canvas, 15 5/8 x 13 ¼ in.
Gift of Philip L. Goodwin in memory of
his mother, Josephine S. Goodwin, 1954.189
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Old Masters to Monet was organized by the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut.
Presentation of the exhibition in Springfield is funded in part by the Michele and Donald D'Amour Fund, established in 2008 to bring world class art exhibitions to the D'Amour Museum of Fine Arts.
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