The High Museum of Art in Atlanta recently acquired four new French impressionist and post-impressionist artworks for its permanent collection.

On view in a special exhibition through Aug. 17 are “Mother and Child” by Mary Cassatt; “Snowscape With Cows, Montfoucault” by Camille Pissarro; “The Breakfast” by Pierre Bonnard; and “Villa les Ecluses, St. Jacut, Brittany” by Edouard Vuillard.

“The acquisition of these four major works makes the museum’s holdings of French impressionist and post-impressionist artists one of the most important in the Southeast,” said David Brenneman, the High’s director of collections and exhibitions.

The American-born Cassatt, who painted with the impressionists in France, was considered one of the greatest painters of mothers and their children. Her ability to capture the intimacy of the mother/ child relationship is evident in this pastel which was completed between 1909 and 1914. Pissarro’s rural landscape depicts the home of fellow painter Ludovic Piette and is one of several snow scenes he painted during the winter of 1874.

Bonnard’s “The Breakfast” (1922) is an example of the post-impressionist painter’s series of scenes that depict everyday life in domestic interiors. While vacationing in Brittany during the summer of 1908 and 1909, Vuillard produced a number of landscapes using pigment bound with animal-based glue on a paper surface. The new acquisition is a noteworthy example of these experimentations.

The High, 1280 Peachtree St., is open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday; 10 a.m.-8 p.m. on Thursday; and noon-5 p.m. on Sunday. For information, call (404) 733-4444.

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