The Metropolitan Museum of New York holds, undoubtedly, the greatest collection of French Impressionist art in the US, but the Philadelphia Museum of Art is not far behind. Manet, Monet, Renoir, Degas, Pissarro, van Gogh and Toulouse-Lautrec are represented by some of their finest works and the Cézanne collection, which includes the Great Bathers (1900-1906) is only surpassed by the holdings of the Barnes Foundation in the same city.

Our presentation will take us through all the major pictures in the collection as well as works by masters connected to Impressionism like Whistler, Courbet and James Tissot. Manet’s Émilie Ambre as Carmen, Degas’ The Ballet Class, Renoir’s The Great Bathers, Van Gogh’s Rain” and Toulouse-Lautrec’s At the Moulin Rouge, are a few of the masterpieces we will be focusing on.