French Masters: Works from the Museum Collection

September 19 – December 27, 2025

  • Braque, Georges (French, 1882 – 1963). Both works: Gift of Robert Venn Carr Jr., Class of 1938
    • Feuilles, Coeleur Lumiere, 1954. Color lithograph. 86.8.5
    • L’Oiseau et son Ombre I, 1959. Lithograph. 97.9.1
  • Cezanne, Paul (French, 1839 – 1906). Portrait de Guillaumin au Penda, 1873. Engraving. Gift of Ernest Lowenstein, Roten Galleries, 58.16.G
  • Chagall, Marc (French, born Russia, 1887 – 1985).
    • Joseph, 1912. Etching. Museum purchase, 57.4.G
    • Le Magicien de Paris II, 1970. Color lithograph. Anonymous donor, 2012.10
    • Naphtali, 1961. Color lithograph. Gift of Robert Venn Carr Jr., Class of 1938, 86.8.10
    • Mrs. Moineau, 1912. Etching. Museum purchase, 53.1.G
  • Gauguin, Paul René (French, born Denmark, 1911 – 1976). Tree, 1956. Lithograph. Gift of Robert Venn Carr Jr., Class of 1938, 86.8.14
  • Magritte, Rene (Belgian, 1898 – 1967).
    • Les Bijoux Indiscrets, 1963. Lithograph. Gift of Robert Venn Carr Jr., Class of 1938, 88.10.16
    • Two Turtledoves in the Hot Shadow of Their House, 1923. Lithograph. Gift of David O. Decker, 2001.1.12
  • Manet, Edouard (French, 1832 – 1883).
    • La Toilette, 1862. Etching. Bequest of Louis J. Freedman, 70.38.G
    • Profile of Baudelaire, 1862. Etching. Gift of an anonymous donor, 2017.18.1
  • Matisse, Henri (French, 1869 – 1954).
    • Nude, 1894. Linocut. Gift of Ernest Lowenstein, Roten Galleries, 58.63.G
    • Primavera, 1938. Linocut on gessoed paper. Gift of Robert Venn Carr Jr., Class of 1938, 97.9.7
  • Renior, Pierre-Auguste (French, 1841 – 1919).
    • Baigneuse Debout, 1910. Etching. Gift of the Kenduskeag Fund, 57.43.G
    • Femme Nue Couchée, 1866. Etching. Gift of the Kenduskeag Fund, 57.44.G
    • Flueve Scamandre, 1910. Etching. Gift of the Kenduskeag Fund, 56.36.G
  • Rouault, Georges (French, 1871 – 1958). Judges, 1935. Wood engraving.
  • Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri (French, 1864 – 1901). Les Vieux Messieurs, 1894. Lithograph.
  • Villon, Jacques (French, 1875 – 1963).
    • La Table Servie (The Place Setting), 1913. Etching. Gift of Robert Venn Carr Jr., Class of 1938, 97.9.5
    • Model Sitting (Illustration for Laus Veneris, Villon from Swinburne), 1900. Etching. Gift of the Kenduskeag Fund, 60.20.G
    • Standing Nude (from Laus Veneris), 1900. Etching on toned ground. Gift of Ernest Lowenstein, Roten Galleries, 66.33.G