ATLANTA , Georgia ( CNN ) -- It is an irony of contemporary art-museum management : Sometimes the museum that creates an exhibition does n't get to premiere it . In a treatment of a Bridgeman Art Library photo , the High shows visitors Jules Arnout 's `` View of the Grand Gallery . '' This is the case this week , as Atlanta 's High Museum of Art couples its public opening of a second year of Louvre-fueled shows from Paris , France , with an exhibition about influences on the Impressionists . `` Inspiring Impressionism '' is organized by the Denver Art Museum . It opened Tuesday at the High , to run there through January 2008 . With the backing of Northern Trust , the show will then travel to Denver February 23 to May 25 , 2008 , and then on to the Seattle Art Museum from June 19 to September 21 , 2008 . Why not start in Denver ? That museum this fall is host to pieces seen in the first year of the three-year Louvre Atlanta series of exhibitions . Like priceless dominos falling , these shows roll around the country and the world , globalization dictating galas , super-sensitive custom shipping companies probably among the biggest winners . See a gallery of images from 'Inspiring Impressionism ' at the High Museum of Art » . Another unintended effect may be shadowing of one important outing by another . It should be interesting to learn whether showing `` Inspiring Impressionism '' at the High on the same time frame as the second year of Louvre Atlanta pays off . Do all the boats in Monet 's `` Autumn on the Seine , Argenteuil '' float ? Smart museum-goers will see it all . `` The Louvre and the Ancient World '' and the companion show `` The Eye of Josephine , '' after all , look at some of the oldest treasures in the Louvre 's vast holdings . See a gallery of some of the highlights of the Louvre Atlanta shows » . The fit is comfortable , in a way , the Impressionist movement of the turn of the last century finding its main proponents in French artists . The emphasis here , however , is on what older works may have moved and motivated such artists as Claude Monet , Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Paul Cézanne . One very distinctive connection from the Louvre Atlanta opener of last year is a section of this new show that looks at the tradition of modern-era artists learning by studying the work of masters at the Louvre , Bartolomé Esteban Murillo 's `` The Beggar Boy '' of around 1650 being one of the most-copied canvases in Western art 's modern history . From the outset , visitors to `` Inspiring Impressionism '' are reminded of the Louvre treasures all around them at the High : The Impressionism show 's entry gallery is flanked by a handsome photographic treatment of Louis Jules Arnout 's `` View of the Grand Gallery at the Louvre '' from between 1850 and 1870 . In that original painting and color lithograph that followed , Arnout captured the bustle of artists working and visitors promenading in the Louvre 's chief exhibition space that runs along the Seine in Paris . In fact , even older-era echoes of this same concept are encountered on looking at Louvre Atlanta 's `` The Tiber '' marble from the first century A.D. , you 're reminded that Michelangelo himself was aware of that piece , influenced by it , presumably inspired by it . So a surprise symmetry takes shape at the High this fall , as visitors contemplate dialogues between museums ( the Louvre , the High , Denver , Seattle ) , the viewers of art in Europe and the United States , and the artists themselves in France , in the U.S. and elsewhere . High director Michael Shapiro calls these synchronicities `` visual evidence of connections . '' His colleagues Timothy Standring of Denver and Ann Dumas of London , England , have held up their end of this conversational eyeful with timely contributions , glimpses of Old World craft from Titian and Velasquez to Fragonard and Rubens -- and the `` moderns '' who saw beyond them to a new age of aesthetic debate . Do n't miss some of the comments and writings of various artists , used as part of the display of the show at the High . Degas may have said it most honestly : `` No art is less spontaneous than mine . What I do is the result of refection and the study of the Old Masters . '' Joining Northern trust Corporation in funding the exhibition are the National Endowment for the Humanities , and support is also provided by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities . E-mail to a friend .
` ` Inspiring Art '' looks at Old Masters , other influences on modern art . Featured are works of Raphael , Renoir , Cézanne , Picasso , etc . ` ` Inspiring Art '' runs through January 31 , 2008 , at the High Museum . Denver Art Museum and Seattle Art Museum get the show next .