Tradition et Innovation: French Art from the Lyman Allyn Art Museum

Through December 31, 2008

Presenting French art from the permanent collection, with paintings, drawings, prints and sculpture from the 17th through the 20th centuries. Works on view include J.A.D. Ingres’s important pencil study for the portrait of Mme. Moitessier Standing (c.1851), Pierre Auguste Renoir’s bronze Maternite’ (1916), and Auguste Rodin’s sculpture Study of a Crouching Woman. Also on view are 17th century drawings by Nicholas Poussin, Hyacinthe Rigaud, and Francois Boucher; and paintings by Pierre Mignard, Gustave Courbet, and Honore’ Daumier.