Quite impressive, not least in the way that it covered art (and related) from the beginning - ie antiquities down the ages and paintings (and later sculpture) from the Old Masters on.
I of course went through in reverse chronological order and spent much more time with the most recent, starting with 'les modernes' (20th century) which was pretty good: side by side pieces from Sonia and Robert Delaunay, good Picasso ("Femme assist sur la plage", 1937), Matta, Maria Helena Vieira da Silva again, likewise Wifredo Lam, and two who were new to me who I liked, Pierre Combet-Descombes (a Lyonnaise painter from the first half of the 20th C) and Alfred Manessier's two "Favela" paintings from more recently. Leans French/European.
19th C - Impressionists and those who came before, again leaning French and not attempting to be comprehensive in its survey. Both Sisley and Monet represented with multiple excellent pieces (below: "La Tamise a Charing-Cross", 1903) - both artists into whom I've grown over time.
Everything else - passed through much more quickly, flickers of meaning and impression, in the way of these things.
(w/ Wei, although we more or less went through the museum on our own paths)
I of course went through in reverse chronological order and spent much more time with the most recent, starting with 'les modernes' (20th century) which was pretty good: side by side pieces from Sonia and Robert Delaunay, good Picasso ("Femme assist sur la plage", 1937), Matta, Maria Helena Vieira da Silva again, likewise Wifredo Lam, and two who were new to me who I liked, Pierre Combet-Descombes (a Lyonnaise painter from the first half of the 20th C) and Alfred Manessier's two "Favela" paintings from more recently. Leans French/European.
19th C - Impressionists and those who came before, again leaning French and not attempting to be comprehensive in its survey. Both Sisley and Monet represented with multiple excellent pieces (below: "La Tamise a Charing-Cross", 1903) - both artists into whom I've grown over time.
Everything else - passed through much more quickly, flickers of meaning and impression, in the way of these things.
(w/ Wei, although we more or less went through the museum on our own paths)
