FRENCH IMPRESSIONISTS

This selection of paintings and drawings from the Fitzwilliam Museum includes works by French Impressionist painters: Monet, Pissarro, Sisley, Renoir, Gauguin, Seurat, Boudin, Cézanne, Signac and Degas. While some are acknowledged masterpieces, others are reproduced here for the first time. The introduction provides an account of the development of "Impressionism" and explains how these works came to be in Cambridge collections in the context of the growing popularity of Impressionist paintingsin Britain.