Bouquets: French Still-Life Painting from Chardin to Matisse

The first major American exhibition to consider the French floral still life across the 19th century will premiere at the DMA in October 2014.  Bouquets: French Still-Life Painting from Chardin to Matisse, co-organized by the DMA and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, will showcase approximately 60 floral still lifes from painters such as Eugène Delacroix, Gustave Courbet, Henri Fantin-Latour, Édouard Manet, and Paul Cézanne to, highlight the well-established painting genre in France during the 1800s.  This exhibition will  include  six works from the DMA’s collection, and be accompanied by  a fully illustrated color catalogue.