French Paintings from the State Pushkin Museum

The State Pushkin Museum is Moscow’s largest repository of European art, and you can see some of its finest treasures – including key works by Poussin, Degas and Cézanne – in this blockbuster show. Masterpieces of French Paintings from the State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow (to give it its full title) was originally due to arrive in Japan in April 2011, but had its trip postponed following the March 11 disaster. Highlights include Renoir's 1877 'Portrait of Jeanne Samary' (pictured) and Ingres' 'Virgin with Chalice' (1841).