Renoir, Auguste (1841-1919). The Excursionist. 1896. Canvas. Photo Credit : Erich Lessing / Art Resource, NY. Musee des Beaux-Arts Andre Malraux, Le Havre, France

NEW ORLEANS.- The French Government and the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) announce Femme, femme, femme: Paintings of Women in French Society from Daumier to Picasso from the Museums of France. This unprecedented exhibition of 83 works from the Louvre, the Musee d’Orsay and 43 other legendary museums throughout France was organized by the Ministére français de la Culture et de la Communication—Direction des musées de France and La Réunion des musées nationaux. It will be shown exclusively at NOMA beginning March 4, 2007... lire la suite sur http://www.artdaily.com/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=19448

Degas, Edgar (1834-1917). Dancers on stage, c.1889. Oil on canvas. 76 x 81 cm. Inv. 1997-29. Photo: Ojeda / Le Mage. Photo Credit : Réunion des Musées Nationaux / Art Resource, NY. Musee des Beaux-Arts, Lyon, France

Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) © ARS, NY. The Bathers, Summer 1918. Oil on canvas, 27 x 22 cm. Photo: B. Hatala. Photo Credit : Réunion des Musées Nationaux / Art Resource, NY. Musee Picasso, Paris, France

Caillebotte,Gustave. Group portraits in the country, 1876. Photo Credit : Erich Lessing / Art Resource, NY. Musee Baron Gerard, Bayeux, France.

Stewart, Julius L. (1855-1919). The Goldsmith women in a Peugeot at the Bois de Boulogne in 1897. 1901. Photo: Arnaudet. Photo Credit : Réunion des Musées Nationaux / Art Resource, NY. Musee de la Voiture, Compiegne, France.

Honoré Daumier, The Heavy Burden, circa 1850, oil on paper laid down on canvas, 18 ½ x 10 5/8 in. (47 x 27 cm.), Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dijon.

Bernard, Emile (1868-1941) (c) ARS, NY. Harvesting apples, 1890. 105 x 45 cm. Oil on canvas. School of Pont-Aven. Photo: Gerard Blot. Photo Credit : Réunion des Musées Nationaux / Art Resource, NY Musee des Beaux-Arts, Nantes, France.

Gervex, Henri (1852-1929). Mme. Valtesse de la Bigne, 1889. Photo Credit : Erich Lessing / Art Resource, NY Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France.

Beraud, Jean (1849-1936) © ARS, NY. The Patisserie Gloppe on the Champs-Elysees. 1889. Oil on wood, 38 x 53 cm. (P 1733). Photo: Bulloz. Photo Credit : Réunion des Musées Nationaux / Art Resource, NY Musee de la Ville de Paris, Musee Carnavalet, Paris, France.

Avy, Joseph Marius (1871-1939). The White Ball. 1903. Oil on canvas. Photo: Bulloz. Photo Credit : Réunion des Musées Nationaux / Art Resource, NY Musee du Petit Palais, Paris, France.