The sculpture Flora, produced by French artist Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux in 1873 and belonging to the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, has been loaned to The EY Exhibition: Impressionists in London, French Artists in Exile (1870–1904), a temporary exhibition to be held at the Tate Britain in London until 7 May, before being presented at the Petit Palais in Paris from 21 June to 14 October. 

Many artists living in France during the Franco-Prussian war (1870–1), the fall of the Second French Empire and the period of the Paris Commune took to London as a place of exile. This exhibition focuses on the relations established there between French and English artists, patrons and art dealers.

Produced during Carpeaux’s stay in London and commissioned by great English art lover Henry James Turner, Flora features in this exhibition alongside works by Monet, Pissarro, Sisley and Derain.