Who knew that Cézanne had a sense of humour?

Impressionist Works from Private Collections, 100 Masterpieces

Musée Marmottan Monet, until 6 July

Tourists are attracted to queues, art lovers to quietude. So while the mass of Monet fans visiting Paris line up outside the Musée d’Orsay and the Orangerie, connoisseurs head to the Musée Marmottan, an institution so surprisingly little known that it had to rename itself the Musée Marmottan Monet to flag up the fact that it owns the world’s largest collection of Monets.

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Tagged100 Masterpieces, Berthe Morisot, Cézanne, Degas, Impressionist Works from Private Collections, Johan Barthold Jongkind, Manet, Monet, Musée Marmottan Monet

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Who knew that Cézanne had a sense of humour?

Until 6 July, the Musée Marmottan Monet is even more essential than usual for lovers of the Impressionists

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