"Monet and the Impressionists". Masterpieces from the Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris

Bologna is back in business with Monet. From 29 August 2020, Palazzo Albergati will be hosting fifty-nine masterpieces by Monet and the biggest names in French Impressionism from the Musée Marmottan Monet in Paris.

A truly exceptional exhibition, on show for the very first time, featuring works that have never before left the Parisian museum since its foundation in 1934.

Exhibition activity is getting underway again at Palazzo Albergati in #Bologna on 29 August 2020, which will mark the start of the eagerly awaited exhibition ‘Monet and the Impressionists. Masterpieces from the Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris’: a collection of fifty-seven masterpieces bearing the signatures of Monet and the biggest names in French Impressionism – such as Manet, Renoir, Degas, Corot, Sisley, Caillebotte, Morisot, Boudin, Pissarro and Signac – all from the Musée Marmottan Monet in Paris, renowned throughout the world as the “home of the great Impressionists”.

This is a real first, given that this is the only time since its foundation in 1934 that the Parisian museum has loaned out a corpus of unique pictures, many of which have never been exhibited anywhere else in the world.

Going against the current international trend, as well as being a truly major event in exhibition terms this show also represents a huge challenge during a period still dominated by great uncertainty due to the Covid-19 health crisis.

With the intention of catering to the public interest and relaunching Bologna’s cultural offer, five months later the Musée Marmottan Monet and #arthemisia are once again presenting the key exhibition that will be held from 29 August 2020 to 14 February 2021: an unmissable opportunity to explore the development of the world’s best loved movement in painting.

The Comune di #Bologna, in #partnership with #Bologna Welcome, is playing an active part in promoting the exhibition, partly through its Card Culture tool.

Alongside key masterpieces of French Impressionism such as Portrait of Madame Ducros (1858) by Degas, Portrait of Julie Manet (1894) by Renoir and Water Lilies (c. 1916–19) by Monet, the exhibition also showcases a number of works that have never been seen by the public at large because they have never left the Musée Marmottan Monet. This is the case of the Portrait of #berthemorisot Reclining (1873) by Édouard Manet, Pont de l'Europe, Gare Saint-Lazare (1877) by #claudemonet and Seated Young Girl in a White Hat (1884) by Pierre Auguste Renoir.

The ‘Monet and the Impressionists. Masterpieces from the Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris’ exhibition also seeks to pay tribute to all those collectors and benefactors – including the many descendants and friends of the artists in display – who, from 1932 onwards, have helped to expand the prestigious collection at the Parisian museum, making it one of the richest and most important in terms of preserving the memory of the Impressionist movement.

Sponsored by the Regione Emilia Romagna and the Comune di #Bologna, this exhibition has been developed and organized by the Gruppo Arthemisia in #partnership with the Musée Marmottan Monet in Paris and has been curated by the museum director Marianne Mathieu.

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Catalogue published by Skira.

In order to guarantee access to the exhibition in compliance with all the safety standards, you will still be able to purchase your ticket at the venue but we strongly recommend booking in advance at www.ticket.it.

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The exhibition will be open every day from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. (ticket office closes at 7 p.m.) and twenty-five #people will be allowed to enter every twenty minutes, for a maximum of seventy-five visitors per hour. All visitors will be required to wear a mask.

THE EXHIBITION

SECTION ONE - Claude Monet: the origin of the Musée Marmottan Monet collections

Paul Marmottan kept his collections in his home in the 16th arrondissement in Paris. It was opened to the public in 1934 and was named the Musée Marmottan Monet in the 1990s. The addition of the great master’s name reflects the acquisitions made by the museum, which now houses the biggest Monet collection in the world.

This exceptional collection was created in 1940 thanks in part to the donation from Victorine Donop de Monchy, whose portrait painted by Renoir (Portrait of Victorine de Bellio, 1892) features in the exhibition.

The show opens with two of the Monet masterpieces that Victorine donated to the museum: Pont de l'Europe, Gare Saint-Lazare (1877) and Train in the Snow or The Locomotive (1875). Subsequently, in 1966, Michel Monet, Claude’s son and last descendent, appointed the Musée Marmottan as the artist’s universal legatee, thereby making it the custodian of the world’s largest collection of artworks by Monet. Michel donated around 100 canvases by his father, whose finest pieces make up the core of the exhibition, together with a bust of Monet by Paul Paulin, which is the only sculpture on display.

SECTION TWO – #berthemorisot at the Musée Marmottan Monet

Back in the 1990s, the Musée Marmottan Monet hosted the first collection in the world of works by #berthemorisot.

The works were offered to the museum by the descendants of the daughter of Berthe and Ėugene Manet (brother of Ėdouard), Julie Manet. This section features her portrait, painted by PierreAuguste Renoir in 1894 (Portrait of Julie Manet) when she was sixteen years old.

In addition to Berthe Morisot’s masterpieces, the bequest from Annie Rouart (Julie’s daughter-inlaw) includes artworks by great artists and family friends such as Camille Corot, Édouard Manet and the other Impressionist colleagues whose works in the exhibition testify to the earliest stages of the movement.

In this section, Manet’s Jupiter and Antiope (1856) (inspired by Titian’s eponymous painting) evokes Berthe Morisot’s encounter with #claudemonet at the Louvre in 1868, when the two of them were copying masterpieces at the museum.

Next to this is the Portrait of #berthemorisot Reclining (1876), illustrating her activity as a model. Indeed, she posed for Manet until 1874, the year he married Eugène.

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