The Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia, holds one of the world's finest collections of French art from 1860 to 1950. Now, for the first time, art lovers can marvel at the full scope of the museum's magnificent holdings in this field, & read about how the collection was created.

Presents a selection of artwork housed at the Hermitage with 107 illustrations, including 65 hand-tipped plates in full color.

Seventy-four masterpieces of French painting, long believed lost in World War II, by many of the greatest artists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

The Hermitage houses the world's largest collection of French paintings. Presented here are more than 750 full-color reproductions detailing the treasures of one of the most renowned and historic collection of paintings, from the Dutch Baroque and Italian Renaissance to Spanish El Greco and French Impressionist.

The wave of change that has swept Russia since the fall of Communism has now revealed masterpieces hidden away and guarded as state secrets including some of the finest works by Degas and Van Gogh. The Hermitage Museum put them on show for the first time in half a century. This book displays the paintings in full colour, together with details and associated or complementary works to show their context.