Russian & French oil paintings on display in Harbin

The artwork is Russian and French, the inspiration English, and the setting Chinese.Taobao agent As part of the Second China-Russia Expo, a Harbin museum is hosting a special exhibition of oil paintings from major art galleries in Moscow and St. Petersburg, along with 19th-century French landscape painters. The theme, however, is taken from Shakespeare.

Russian & French oil paintings on display in Harbin

The title of the exhibition is "Eternal Beauty," inspired by a line from Shakespeare's Sonnet Number 18—"When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st."
The idea of beauty immortalized through a poet's words is a recurrent theme in Shakespeare's sonnets, but here, the suggestion is that a painter can confer enduring fame as well.

Among the 300 oil paintings displayed are masterpieces by 19th-century French landscape artists, including Camille Corot.
He is a pivotal figure in art history, referring to a Neo-Classical tradition yet anticipating the plein-air innovations of Impressionism.China Ebay

The exhibition is taking place in Harbin, capital of North China's Heilongjiang province.