FRENCH MASTERPIECES FROM REALISM TO IMPRESSIONISM

At Ordrupgaard, you can experience a string of French masterpieces – from Romanticism and early Realism to Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. It was a period that would forever change art history, and where reality became the new artistic program. In the exhibition, you can experience some of the biggest names in world art, including Camille Corot, Gustave Courbet, Édouard Manet, Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, Eva Gonzalès, Claude Monet, Berthe Morisot, Paul Gauguin, Henri Matisse, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Auguste Rodin, and Alfred Sisley.

Corot, Courbet, and Daumier depicted reality with a new and unprecedented realism in motifs from nature, where gloomy clouds hang heavily over landscapes that often bear traces of industrial society. In Daumier's motifs of wrestlers and mothers with toddlers on the streets of Paris, people at the bottom of society are portrayed.

The Impressionists are strongly represented at Ordrupgaard. In works by Édouard Manet, Claude Monet, Berthe Morisot, Edgar Degas, Paul Cezanne, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, among others, the fascination with the modern world in flux unfolds in shimmering snapshots.

With a total of 11 works by Paul Gauguin, the exhibition tells the story of the art that followed Impressionism and sought new artistic expressions inspired by the lifestyles, crafts, and landscapes of distant cultures.

The exhibition provides space for grand narratives, but there is also an opportunity to delve into pastel painting, which was rediscovered by the Impressionists, and sculptures with works by Auguste Rodin and Paul Gauguin, among others.

Berthe Morisot, Young Girl in Green (Mademoiselle Isabelle Lambert), (1885). Ordrupgaard