The National Museum Wales counts among its treasures the Davies Collection, an extraordinary group of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century paintings that is remarkable for its breadth and quality. Assembled between 1908 and 1923 by sisters Gwendoline and Margaret Davies, the collection is exceptionally strong in Realist and Impressionist works and includes masterpieces by, among others, Cézanne, Daumier, Manet, Millet, Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, and Van Gogh...

French floral still lifes—as well as portraits with flowers, public and private garden scenes, landscapes of wild flowers, and genre paintings and portraits that prominently feature flowers—have long been admired for their beauty and execution.  A Passion for Flowers will bring together a wide selection of some of the finest paintings featuring flowers by Mary Cassatt, Gustave Courbet, Edgar Degas, Henri Fantin-Latour, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, Edouard Manet, Claude Monet, Berthe Morisot, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and others...