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Pathway Through the High Grass: Pierre-Auguste Renoir's work is a highlight of the collection.
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Top of every visitor's must-see list is the world's largest collection of impressionist and
post-impressionist art. Just some of its highlights include Manet's
On the Beach
and
Wo-
man with Fans;
Monet's gardens at Giverny and
Rue Montorgueil, Paris, Festival of
June 30, 1878;
Cézanne's card players,
Green Apples
and
Blue Vase;
Renoir's
Ball
at the Moulin de la Galette
and
Young Girls at the Piano;
Degas' ballerinas;
Toulouse-Lautrec's cabaret dancers; Pissarro's
The Harvest;
Sisley's
View of the Canal
St-Martin;
and Van Gogh's self-portraits,
Bedroom in Arles
and
Starry Night over
the Rhône
. One of the museum's newer acquisitions is James Tissot's 1868 painting
The
Circle of the Rue Royale,
classified a National Treasure.
