French Painting From the Pushkin Museum: 17th to 20th Century
Harry N. Abrams | 1980 | ISBN: 081090909X | English | 444 pages | PDF | 73.4 MB

For art lovers unable to visit Soviet museums, for anyone fascinated by painters' views of past and present times, this large and brilliant display of French paintings in the Pushkin Museum is a source of lasting joy. The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow is Russia's second largest, next only to the Hermitage Museum in Leningrad, and its assemblage of French art is among the finest in the world. All the major genres and schools of France are represented, including portraiture, landscape and historical painting, and the incomparable Impressionist vision of the world