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The Currier Museum of Art in Manchester, NH has been loaned two significant impressionist landscape paintings – one by Vincent van Gogh and another by Pierre-August Renoir. The works will be on view at the museum through the end of January.

The van Gogh painting was created in 1887 and features a peasant in a field near a country road, with Paris off in the distance. The painting illustrates how contemporary impressionist and neo-impressionist artists living in Paris affected van Gogh’s work. The Renoir painting shows a woman holding a parasol and a bouquet of flowers, with another behind her, emerging from the trees. Although there are figures in the painting, the composition is highly influenced by the landscape.

The two masterpieces will be exhibited alongside Claude Monet’s The Seine at Bougival, which is a part of the Currier’s collection.

For a limited time, the Currier Museum in Manchester, NH is exhibiting an early painting by Claude Monet (1840-1926) in their European Gallery. The painting, Adolphe Monet in the Garden of Le Coteau at Sainte-Adresse (1867), remained in Monet’s family until 2004 and will be returned to its owner in early July. No future public showings have been scheduled.

Adolphe Monet in the Garden of Le Coteau at Sainte-Adresse is an early painting by Monet and features the artist’s father reading a newspaper under an awning of trees. The painting will be shown alongside the Currier’s own early Monet masterpiece, The Seine at Bougival (1869). Adolphe Monet in the Garden of Le Coteau at Sainte-Adresse has only been on public view in a museum once before when it was exhibited in 2011 at Paris’ Galeries nationales du Grand Palais as part of a major retrospective of Monet’s work.

Adolphe Monet in the Garden of Le Coteau at Sainte-Adresse will be on view at the Currier Museum through early July 2013.