Parma, an exhibition on French Impressionism at Palazzo Tarasconi to mark the centenary of Monet's death

From February 14 to May 31, 2026, Palazzo Tarasconi in Parma will host a major exhibition dedicated toFrench Impressionism, entitled Impressionists: 100 Years of Reflections. The Impressionists from Monet to Bonnard. The initiative is held under the patronage of the Emilia-Romagna Region, the Province and the City of Parma and is produced by Navigare srl, under the curatorship of Stefano Oliviero.

The exhibition aims to offer a broad account of the origins and evolution of Impressionism, a movement that was officially born in Paris in 1874 with the first exhibition organized in the studio of photographer Nadar. It was the beginning of a new conception of painting, based on an unprecedented attention to light, color and visual perception, developed mainly through the practice of en plein air painting.

The exhibition will take the public through more than seventy works, including about fifty oil paintings and about twenty watercolors, graphic works and drawings, from private Italian and French collections. Alongside Claude Monet, the father of the movement, works by Alfred Sisley, Vincent van Gogh, Giovanni Boldini, Paul César Helleu, Eugène Isabey, Antoine Guillemet, Pierre Bonnard and other artists who collected and developed the Impressionist legacy will be on display.

On the occasion of the centenary of Claude Monet’s death in 1926, the exhibition will devote special attention to his pivotal role in the artistic landscape of the time. An early work, the oil painting Tempête à Sainte Adresse (ca. 1857), and a work of his maturity attributed to him, Les Pêcheurs de Poissy (ca. 1882), will be presented.

Alongside the Impressionist masters, the exhibition will also include works by exponents of the Barbizon School, including Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, Théodore Rousseau, Charles-François Daubigny, and Jean-François Millet. Fundamental artists in the development of a new landscape sensibility, which contributed decisively to paving the way for the visual revolution of Impressionism and profoundly influenced the art of nineteenth-century French painters.

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Pictured: Claude Monet, Tempête à Sainte Adresse (circa 1857).

Parma, an exhibition on French Impressionism at Palazzo Tarasconi to mark the centenary of Monet's death

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