Crosscurrents: American and European Masterpieces from the Permanent Collection
March 14, 2007 – January 1, 2009
West Building, Ground Floor, Central Galleries G39 through G43
This exhibition is no longer on view at the National Gallery.
Overview: Important paintings from the permanent collection of French, English, and American art were kept on view during renovation of Main Floor galleries in a thematic installation. Included were Jacques-Louis David's The Emperor Napolean in His Study at the Tuileries, James McNeill Whistler’s Symphony in White, No. 1: The White Girl, and Jean Siméon Chardin's The House of Cards. Thomas Cole's four-painting series The Voyage of Life was on view in gallery G39 with other landscapes and seascapes. Four portrait busts by Jean-Antoine Houdon and selected French paintings were shown in gallery G37. A few works in the exhibition were changed over the course of the installation.
Organization: The exhibition was organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington.
The Age of Watteau, Chardin, and Fragonard: Masterpieces of French Genre Painting
18th-Century France — Chardin and Portraiture
18th-Century France — Boucher and Fragonard
John Singleton Copley (American, 1738-1815)
Constable and Turner — British Landscapes of the Early 1800s
Whistler, Sargent, and Tanner — Americans Abroad in the Late 1800s
- David, Jacques-Louis
- French, 1748 - 1825
- Chardin, Jean Siméon
- French, 1699 - 1779
- Fragonard, Jean Honoré
- French, 1732 - 1806
- Whistler, James McNeill
- American, 1834 - 1903
- Copley, John Singleton
- American, 1738 - 1815
- Turner, Joseph Mallord William
- British, 1775 - 1851