Mary Cassatt at Orsay: A Centenary Tribute France Owed Her

The Musée d’Orsay opens the first major exhibition the French national museums have devoted to Mary Cassatt, a century after her death — and reads her career through the one word she claimed for herself: independent.
Zurbarán at the Louvre: The Painter of Silence Takes the Hall Napoléon

From 7 October the Louvre, with the National Gallery and the Art Institute of Chicago, stages a retrospective of Francisco de Zurbarán — and ends it, tellingly, with Manet, Picasso and Gris.