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is the fourth and last. It was taken by many as a nihilistic declaration of
the 'end of painting', causing both awe and outrage.
Room 317
Spectacular Van Goghs including
Thatched Cottages
(1890) and the
dreamy
Memory of the Garden at Etten
(1888) are on display here.
Room 318
This remarkable room has some of Cézanne's most famous pictures, in-
cluding
Mont Sainte-Victoire, Lady in Blue
and
The Smoker
. Pissarro's
Blvd Mont-
martre, Sunny Afternoon
(1897) is also here.
Room 319
Feast your eyes on the paintings by Claude Monet, including his early
work
Lady in a Garden.
One of the most extraordinary paintings in the entire Hermit-
age collection is his later work,
Waterloo Bridge, Effect of Mist
(1903). The room also
has three sculptures by Rodin.
Room 320
Five Renoir paintings are here, including the celebrated
Portrait of the
Actress Jeanne Samary
(1878) and the iconic
Child With a Whip
(1885).
Rooms 321-331: Barbizon School & Romanticism
Romanticism was the prevailing school of art in the 19th century and Delacroix is the
most celebrated French Romantic painter. Prime examples of his style can be seen in
Moroccan Saddling a Horse
and
Lion Hunt in Morocco
(Room 321).
The Barbizon School, named for the village where this group of artists settled, reac-
ted against this romanticism, making a move towards realism. Gustav Courbet, Jean-
Baptiste Camille Corot, Théôdore Rousseau and Jean-François Millet are all represen-
ted (Rooms 321 to 322).
Room 334: Russian Avant-Garde
This is the only room in the entire Hermitage to feature 20th-century Russian art
(most is housed in the Russian Museum). Look for some examples of Kandinsky's
early work, as well as paintings by Kazimir Malevich. This is the permanent home of
the
Black Square
(1915), which went missing during the Soviet period, mysteriously
reappearing in southern Russia in 1993. Oligarch Vladimir Potanin bought the paint-
ing for $US1 million and donated it to the Hermitage in 2002.
