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Featured Exhibition Gustave Caillebotte: Painting Men

Painter Gustave Caillebotte depicted a distinctive vision of modern masculinity in turn-of-the-century France.

Painted in an impressionist style, a man wearing a vest, striped shirt, and a top hat, rows a boat on a pond surrounded by lush greenery.
Boating Party (detail), about 1877–78, Gustave Caillebotte. Oil on canvas. Musée d’Orsay, Paris. Painting listed “national treasure” by the French Republic, acquired with the exclusive patronage of LVMH, major patron of the Musée d’Orsay, 2022. Photo: Grand Palais RMN (Musée d’Orsay)/Franck Raux

Highlights

  1. Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida's Pepilla and her Daughter

    A light-skinned mother dressed in black smiles at a young child, who is turned away from view, holding her mother's hand. Behind them, a large oil painting of mother and child hangs on a gallery wall

    Recent conservation work has breathed new life into this compelling life-sized painting of a Romani mother and daughter

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  2. Close Looking: Edgar Degas' Après le bain (Femme s’essuyant)

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    Conservator Michelle Sullivan looks closely at Edgar Degas' pastel to show how the artist created it and how it might best be conserved

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  1. Van Gogh's Shelter: The Hospital Saint-Paul-de-Mausole in Saint-Rémy

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    Sun, Mar 30, 2025, 10pm

  2. Breaking Barriers: Sophie Fremiet and the Rise of Women Artists in Europe

    Talk

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    Sun, May 4, 2025, 10pm

  3. Rainbow Vision: Family Workshop | Visión arcoíris: taller familiar

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  4. Selected Shorts: Lost and Found

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    Sun, Mar 30, 2025, 3am

Our Collection

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    Jan 27, 2025

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    Jan 7, 2025

  3. Cheese or Seawater in Your Wine?

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    Ancient wine expert Emlyn Dodd reveals the things ancient Greeks slipped into their goblets, the games they played at drinking parties, and other surprising practices inspired by fine oinos

    Jan 21, 2025

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