The most beautiful French come from New York
June 1st, 2007 - October 7th, 2007
Neue Nationalgalerie

From June 1st to October 7th, 2007, the Nationalgalerie Berlin presented for the first time a comprehensive exhibition of masterpieces of 19th century French art from the New York Metropolitan Museum.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded in New York in 1870 and includes around 3 million works from all periods of art and cultural history, spanning a period of over 5,000 years. Among these diverse treasures is also the most important collection of major works of French Romantic, Impressionist and early modern art outside of France.

Due to structural changes, the magnificent masterpieces from Ingres to Monet, from Corot to Cézanne, could not be shown in New York in the summer of 2007. With around 140 top-class works from this valuable collection, the exhibition brought together the big names in French art with major works in the Neue Nationalgalerie for four months. Berlin thus temporarily became, alongside the Paris Musée d'Orsay, the leading house of French Impressionism in Europe. The density and quality of early French modernism presented in the exhibition is unparalleled in Germany.

Berlin was the only European stop for the exhibition.