100 Paintings from the Metropolitan Museum

100 Paintings from the Metropolitan Museum opened at the State Hermitage Museum in Leningrad (22 May – 27 July 1975). A cross-section of the core of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection, it ranged from Italian, Netherlandish, Spanish, German, English and French old masters to the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, with a smaller group of mostly realist American paintings. It was one of six American exhibitions shown in Soviet museums during the détente-era cultural exchange of the 1970s.

Its single work by Johannes Vermeer was Woman with a Lute (no. 24 in the catalogue). After Leningrad, the exhibition continued to the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow.