Metropolitan Museum of Art: Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painting
On its second floor the Met has a startling array of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art. Chief works include Manet 's Young Lady in 1866 , Courbet 's Young Ladies from the Village and Degas ' Dancers Practicing at the Bar . There are three superb works by Monet - Rouen Cathedral, The Houses of Parliament (Effect of Fog) and The Doge's Palace Seen from San Giorgio Maggiore - which show the beginnings of his final phase of near-abstract Impressionism. Renoir is perhaps the best represented among the remaining Impressionists, though his most important work here dates from 1878, when he began to move away from the mainstream techniques he'd learned while working with Monet. Mme Charpentier and her Children is a likeable enough piece, one whose affectionate tone manages to sidestep the sentimentality of Renoir's later work.Also here is Cézanne 's masterpiece The Card Players . All of this scratches little more than the surface of the galleries. Look out for major works by Van Gogh (including Irises, Woman of Arles and Sunflowers ), Rousseau, Bonnard, Pissarro and Seurat .
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