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Impressionism Abroad: Boston and French Painting

This exceptional catalog illuminates the process of artistic education and assimilation exemplified by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston’s impressive collection of both French and American Impressionism. Boston was home to some of the best-informed and most progressive collectors of modern painting in the United States. They were among the first to embrace the successive waves of stylistic innovation occurring in France, and along with their peers in New York, the most avid collectors of modern French art. French Impressionism and Boston consists of fifty-three paintings; among them are twelve Monets and works by Corot, Degas, Hassam, Renoir and Sargent.