The Hermitage

Having booked our tickets online, we waltzed past the queue and into the Hermitage.  First to the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, then to the State Rooms, then to the Rembrandts and finally to the Italian section.  Particular favourites:  Titian's and Rembrandt's versions of Danäe, Andrea del Sarto's Madonna and Child with SS. Elizabeth, Catherine and John the Baptist, Bernardino Luini's Saint Catherine, Guercino's Assumption, Capriolo's Portrait of a Man, Monet's Dame dans le jardin, Derain's Route en Montagne, Kees van Dongen's Danseuse Rouge and Albert Marquet's Bay of Naples.

Titian, Danae

Rembrandt, Danae

Andrea del Sarto, Madonna and Child
with SS. Elizabeth, Catherine and John the Baptist

Bernardino Luini, St Catherine

Monet, Dame dans le jardin

Albert Marquet, Bay of Naples

Kees van Dongen, Danseuse Rouge