Collection: Monet and Venice

de Young Museum

March 21 – July 26, 2026

Monet and Venice is the first major international loan exhibition devoted to Claude Monet’s luminous paintings of La Serenissima. Co-organized by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (the “Fine Arts Museums”) and the Brooklyn Museum, Monet and Venice will run from March 21 through July 26, 2026, at the de Young museum in San Francisco, following its presentation in Brooklyn. 

In October 1908, at the age of 68, Monet and his second wife, Alice, made their one and only trip to Venice. Venice was Monet’s last significant international trip and his final engagement with architectural subject matter. With more than 100 artworks on view in the exhibition galleries, Monet and Venice will reveal how transformative Monet’s sojourn to Venice was by situating these paintings within the context of his illustrious career. Anchored by paintings from the Brooklyn Museum and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the exhibition will bring together more than 20 of Monet’s 37 Venice canvases. These two masterpieces—The Doge’s Palace (Brooklyn) and The Grand Canal, Venice (San Francisco)—served as inspiration for the co-organization of this exhibition.