Paris at the time of the Impressionists: the exhibition of the year!
From 12 April to 30 July 2011, Paris Town Hall is presenting a hundred Impressionist works little-known to the general public, loaned by the Musée d’Orsay.

Paintings and drawings by artists fascinated by the transformation of their city ordered by Napoleon III and carried out by Baron Haussmann. The exhibition shows how the Impressionist artists interpreted the turmoil of Paris at the time, from the second half of the 19th Century to the beginning of the 20th Century.

While the first part, in the Salle Saint-Jean, concentrates on the Haussmann transformations (streets, stations, buildings,…), the second, in the great nave, offers a view of a bustling Paris.

Masters of Impressionism (Claude Monet, Henri de Toulouse Lautrec, Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, Gustave Caillebotte, Camille Pissarro), and Impressionist artists to discover (Théophile Alexandre Steinlen, Johan Berthold Jongkind, Maximilien Luce and Jacques Emile Blanche) are under the spotlight at the Town Hall for this major, very Parisian – and free! – exhibition!

Nouvelles Images is publishing a series of postcards to mark the exhibition.