When: closing July 29, 2018
The National Gallery occasionally borrows an artwork from another museum and puts it with the permanent collection. It's usually something related to a work the NGA already owns.
Currently, a Monet painting of his garden at Vetheuil is on loan from the Norton Simon Foundation in Pasadena, CA. It's on the left in the photo above. It's smaller and is missing some elements included in the NGA's version on the right.
When I visited, a tour group was in the room, talking about the paintings, so I couldn't really examine them terribly closely. In addition, a painter was there (you can see part of her canvas on the right of the snapshot), and I didn't want to interfere with her work. Nonetheless, it was interesting to see the changes in the painting and to realize that painters will return to subjects to paint them in a different way.
Verdict: Have a look the next time you're at the National Gallery.
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