Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts

Masterpieces loaned from the likes of Musée d’Orsay, the British Museum and the Versailles Museum are on display in this traveling exhibition covering three hundred years of French painting. A total of 71 oil paintings and 18 sketches by the likes of Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665), a pioneer of the classical Baroque style; Francois Boucher (1703–1770), a dominant member of the Rococo movement and one of the most celebrated painters of the 18th century; and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780-1876), a neoclassical painter who influenced modernists like Picasso and Matisse, offer a comprehensive picture of the evolution of styles right up to the eve of the Impressionist period.