“Women in Impressionism” at Denmark’s Glyptotek

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French Impressionism is known for its sketch-like technique, which revolutionized painting and the graphic arts in the 1870s. But were Impressionist depictions of contemporary women also pioneering?

To explore this question, “Women in Impressionism” presents a selection of masterpieces by Edouard Manet, Claude Monet, Berthe Morisot, Edgar Degas, Mary Cassatt, Pierre-August Renoir, Camille Pissarro and Paul Gauguin.

These works have been loaned by private collectors and prominent museums all over the world, and together they represent contemporary woman as a creature with many faces: as housewife, mother, the nucleus of the family, to the respectable ladies of the bourgeoisie, to maids, mistresses, demi-mondaines and fallen women.