New display in the General Staff Building “Sergey Shchukin and the Morozov Brothers Memorial Gallery”

The display of French art from mid-19th to early 20th century is placed on the third floor of the General Staff Building as a part of the Gallery dedicated to the memory of the collectors Sergei Shchukin and Morozov brothers. It is to their endeavors that the Hermitage owes the outstanding collection of French art embracing the period from Impressionism until early 20th century.

Besides works of art from the collections of S.I. Shchukin and A. Morozov, which form the basis of the Gallery, the display also includes works from several Russian and European collections which also entered the Hermitage.

The Gallery opens with the Claude Monet Room with his fourteen paintings. The Impressionism is further represented in the Edgar Degas Room by his “Place de la Concorde”, in the room of still-lifes by Henri Fantin-Latour, and in the room of landscapes by Camille Pissarro and Alfred Sisley. The next two rooms accommodate exceptionally rich collection of paintings by Auguste Renoir. Further on, there are works by Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin and the Nabis Group artists Pierre Bonnard, Edouard Vuillard and Maurice Denis. The Gallery ends with the display of the works by Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso and their contemporaries.

The new exhibition is to a large degree of experimental nature and we want it to be a subject of public discussion. It is important for us to know visitors’ opinion on its merits and shortcomings. We suggest that you make entries in the guest book in the General Staff Building, leave your comments in the Museum Blog or submit your review to the Hermitage website. We also invite you to send emails to: redactor@hermitage.ru.