Edouard Manet
Edgar Degas
Claude Monet
Pierre August Renoir
Raffaello
Tiziano
El Greco
Diego Velazquez
Jean-Honore' Fragonard
Mary Cassat
Paul Cezanne
Berthe Morisot
Jean-Baptiste Huet
Jean-Simeon Chardin
Camille Pissarro
Meindert Hobbema
The exhibition features more than 100 paintings and works on paper drawn from nearly 70 museums and private collections, some of which have never traveled to the United States. Masterpieces by artists including Manet, Degas, Monet, Cezanne and Renoir will be exhibited alongside works by Raphael, Titian, El Greco, and Velazquez, exploring the European Old Masters' influence on 19th-century Impressionism.
Inspiring Impressionism will shed new light on one of art history's
most important movements when it opens on February 23, 2008. Organized by the Denver
Art Museum (DAM), the exhibition features more than 100 paintings and works on paper
drawn from nearly 70 museums and private collections, some of which have never
traveled to the United States. Northern Trust is the National Tour Sponsor of
Inspiring Impressionism.
Masterpieces by artists including Manet, Degas, Monet, and Renoir will be exhibited
alongside works by Raphael, Titian, El Greco, and Velázquez, exploring the European
Old Masters' influence on 19th-century Impressionism.
"This is the first exhibition to focus specifically on the important relationship
between the Impressionists and Old Masters," said Timothy J. Standring, Gates
Foundation Curator of Painting and Sculpture. Although the Impressionist painters
are known for creating an innovative new style, much in their technique and
composition echoes the work of their predecessors.
Exhibition highlights include traditional landscapes, still lifes and portraits by
Old Masters such as Claude Lorrain, Jean-Siméon Chardin, and Frans Hals that are
paired with Impressionist works. Pairings, such as Mary Cassatt's Mrs. Duffee Seated
on a Striped Sofa, Reading (1876) and Jean Honoré Fragonard's Reader (1776) will
explore connections through use of similar artistic technique, composition, and
subject matter.
Image: Mary Cassat and J.H. Fragonard
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