Тема: The collection of French art in the Hermitage

The State Hermitage in St Petersburg is one of the world's most outstanding art museums. It is the largest fine arts museum in Russia. World famous is the collection of West-European paintings covering a span of about seven hundreds years, from...

...1870, were important landmarks in the growth of the treasures of the Hermitage . In 1885 the Hermitage received an important collection of objects of applied art of the 12th – 26th centuries, gathered by Basilevsky; , together with the Armoury...

...paintings by Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Rubens; a remarkable group of French eighteenth century canvases, and Impressionist and Post Impressionist paintings.
Since 1949 a post-graduate school has been functioning at the Hermitage , specialists in art ...

John Constables innovation influenced greatly the development of French landscape painting. In 1826, when he was 50, he showed a number of landscapes in the Paris salon.

...Dyck, Rubens; a remarkable group of French eighteenth century canvases, and Impressionist and Post Impressionist paintings. The...
...to enrich the Hermitage collections . Most helpful in the Museum’s research work is the Hermitage Library which...

The Louvre, which had its beginnings in the royal collections of the 16th-century king Francis I, became, during the time of the French Revolution, the first great public art museum; it opened its doors in 1793.