Exhibition featuring works from the museum’s unique collection of French art.

At Ordrupgaard, you can experience a string of French masterpieces – from Romanticism and early realism to impressionism and post-impressionism. This was a period that would change art history for good, reality now becoming the new artistic agenda. In the exhibition, you can experience some of the greatest 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 portrayed reality with a fresh realism never seen before in nature motifs with ominous heavy clouds hanging over the landscapes, often with traces of industrial society. Daumier’s motifs of wrestlers and mothers with small children in the streets of Paris focus on people at the bottom rung of the social ladder.

Impressionists are strongly represented at Ordrupgaard. In works by artists such as Édouard Manet, Claude Monet, Berthe Morisot, Edgar Degas, Paul Cézanne, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, the fascination with a modern world undergoing change is rendered in shimmering snapshot-like pictures.

With a total of eleven works by Paul Gauguin, the exhibition presents art that followed on from impressionism, aiming for new artistic expressions inspired by the lifestyles of remote cultures, decorative art, and landscapes.

The exhibition provides space for the great narratives, but there is equally an opportunity to explore pastel painting