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Two important loans from Germany make an impression at National Museum Cardiff

CARDIFF.- The National Museum Wales often shares its collections with venues both home and abroad. And this autumn is no different as the French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist gallery at National Museum Cardiff feature two important loans from Germany, as part of an international exchange initiative. Edouard Manet’s depiction of The Painter Monet in his Studio-boat, lent by the Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, 1874, will be at National Museum Cardiff until October 2012 and Claude Monet’s The Sea at Antibes, 1888, which is on loan from the Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal will be on show until January 2012. Two Venetian Monets and Alfred Sisley’s Storr’s Rock have been loaned out from Amgueddfa Cymru in return. Both works on display in Cardiff add a new perspective to the works in the Museum’s collection. Edouard Manet’s depiction of The Painter Monet in his Studio-boat, was painted in 1874,