From October 11, 2025, to February 1, 2026, the Brooklyn Museum presents the exhibition “Monet and Venice”
Supply: Brooklyn Museum · Picture: Claude Monet. The Doge’s Palace, 1908. Oil on canvas. Brooklyn Museum, Present of A. Augustus Healy, 20.634.
The Brooklyn Museum and the Fantastic Arts Museums of San Francisco are happy to announce Monet and Venice, a coorganized exhibition that can reunite Claude Monet’s extraordinary group of Venetian work. The exhibition will deliver collectively greater than twenty of Monet’s Venetian views from private and non-private collections all over the world, together with two masterpieces from the collections of the Brooklyn Museum and the Fantastic Arts Museums of San Francisco—The Doge’s Palace and The Grand Canal, Venice. It would mark the primary devoted exploration of Monet’s luminous Venetian works since their debut in 1912, putting them in context with choose work from key moments all through his profession, and in dialogue with portrayals of town by artists resembling Canaletto, Édouard Manet, John Singer Sargent, J. M. W. Turner, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
Cocurated by Lisa Small, Senior Curator of European Artwork on the Brooklyn Museum, and Melissa Buron, former Director of Curatorial Affairs on the Fantastic Arts Museums of San Francisco and present Director of Collections and Chief Curator on the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, the exhibition affords a uncommon alternative for guests to expertise Monet’s distinctive imaginative and prescient of the fabled metropolis.
“It’s thrilling to reunite so many of Monet’s radiant, radical paintings of Venice,” mentioned Lisa Small. “Although he avoided visiting until he was 68 years old—anxiously aware of how many artists had painted the famous city before him—once there he found it a unique and ideal environment to pursue his passion for rendering the changing effects of light and air. We are eager for our visitors to ‘travel’ to Venice and immerse themselves in the unfolding beauty of Monet’s paintings.”
