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

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.