2 November 2017 – 29 April 2018
Tate Britain |  London, UK

With a selection of 100 major works by Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Alfred Sisley, James Tissot and others, this will be the first large-scale exhibition to chart the stories of the French artists who sought refuge in Britain during the turbulent period beginning with the Franco-Prussian war in 1870.

The conflict sparked a wave of emigration of French artists across the English Channel. This exhibition explores the influence of London and British society on the work of these artists across a broad range of innovative themes, including the role of this microcosm of exiles in fostering encounters and support, the impact of French artists on artistic education in Britain, and the prevalence in their paintings of subjects related to the British capital.