The exhibition gives an artistic context to Chopin's time Courtesy of the National Museum

In commemoration of the 200th anniversary of Frederick Chopin’s birth, this exhibition presents the works of the most acclaimed French and Polish artists of the Romantic movement, contextualizing the great composer and his music in light of European art and culture in the mid-nineteenth century.

Courtesy of the National Museum

French artists whose works are displayed in the exhibition include Eugéne Delacroix, Paul Delaroche, Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, Théodore Chassériau and Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres.

Also included are the works of Polish artists of the period, including Piotr Michałowski, Henryk Rodakowski, Józef Simmler, Jan Matejko, Artur Grottger and Teofil Kwiatkowski.

The bulk of the exhibition is formed from the museum’s existing collections, although various pieces have also been acquired from institutions both in Poland and abroad – for example Norway’s National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Oslo, and several French institutions, such as the Louvre, have donated works.

For more information, visit www.mnw.art.pl