The Hermitage: Western European painting of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

📓 THE HERMITAGE, one of the world's biggest treasuries of Western European art, already had a wide reputation outside Russia last century. It was renowned mainly for its collection of sixteenth to eighteenth century paintings, having very few nineteenth century works; these for the most part were amassed in the Museum after the October Revolution. From that time the Hermitage also began to acquire paintings by foreign artists of the twentieth century.