Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926). Houses of Parliament, Sunlight Effect (Le Parlement, effet de soleil) (detail), 1903. Oil on canvas, 32 x 36.25 in. Bequest of Grace Underwood Barton, 68.48.1. (Photo: Drew Baron, courtesy of the Columbia Museum)
Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926). Houses of Parliament, Sunlight Effect (Le Parlement, effet de soleil) (detail), 1903. Oil on canvas, 32 x 36.25 in. Bequest of Grace Underwood Barton, 68.48.1. (Photo: Drew Baron, courtesy of the Columbia Museum)
About the Exhibition
French Moderns: Monet to Matisse, 1850–1950 exhibits fifty nine works of art from the Brooklyn Museum’s renowned European collection and privileges France as the artistic center of international modernism from the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries. Ranging widely in scale, subject matter, and style, these paintings, drawings, and sculptures were produced by the era’s leading artists, those born in France as well as those who studied and showed there, including Pierre Bonnard, Gustave Caillebotte, Paul Cézanne, Marc Chagall, Edgar Degas, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Henri Matisse, Jean-François Millet, Claude Monet, Berthe Morisot, Odilon Redon, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Auguste Rodin, Édouard Vuillard, and more.
The works in the exhibition exemplify the avant-garde movements that defined modern art in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, tracing a shift from capturing the visual to evoking the idea, from an emphasis on naturalism to the rise of abstraction.
This exhibition is organized by Lisa Small Senior Curator, European Art, and Rich Aste, former Curator of European Art, Brooklyn Museum.
Admission: free
Primary Benefactor
Gina Fitzhugh Wilson
Premier Sponsors
Shelley Fink-Brackett
Mary Neal
Presenting Partners
Aux Délices
Ramona and Robert Deal
William and Janice Grace
Mary Katharine Evans
Elizabeth Holt '79
Larry King Law
Patricia '02 and Dan Mooza
Newport News Arts Commission
TowneBank
Auguste Rodin (French, 1840–1917). She Who Was the Helmet Maker's Once-Beautiful Wife, 1885–87; cast 1969. Bronze, 19.75 x 13 x 9.75 in. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation, 86.87.2. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
Henri Fantin-Latour (French, 1836-1904). Portrait of Madame Léon Maître (Portrait of Madame Léon Maître), 1882. Oil on canvas, 50 x 55.5 in. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of A. Augustus Healy and George A. Hearn, 06.69. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
Camille Pissarro (French, 1830–1903). The Climb, Rue de la Côte-du-Jalet, Pontoise, 1875. Oil on canvas, 21.25 x 25.87 in. Brooklyn Museum, Purchased with funds given by Dikran G. Kelekian, 22.60. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
Jean-Léon Gérôme (French, 1824–1904). The Carpet Merchant of Cairo, 1869. Oil on canvas, 31.87 x 22 in. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Joseph Gluck, 74.208. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
Gustave Courbet (French, 1819-1877). The Edge of the Pool (Au Bord de l'Etang), 1867. Oil on canvas, 31.75 x 39.37 in. Gift of Mrs. Horace O. Havemeyer, Mrs. Frederic B. Pratt, and Hyman Brown, by exchange, 1992.17. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
Paul Cézanne (French, 1839–1906). The Village of Gardanne, 1885–86. Oil and conté crayon on canvas, 36.25 x 28.81 in. Brooklyn Museum, Ella C. Woodward Memorial Fund and Alfred T. White Fund, 23.105. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
Edgar Degas (French, 1834-1917). Portrait of a Man (Portrait d'homme), ca. 1866. Oil on canvas, 34 x 25.5 in. Museum Collection Fund, 21.112. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (French, 1796–1875). Young Women of Sparta, 1868–70. Oil on canvas, 16.75 x 29.44 in. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Mrs. Horace O. Havemeyer, 42.195. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
