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Americans in Paris, 1860—1900 was a long overdue exhibition that aimed to explore, as the introductory wall label stated, «why Paris was a magnet for Americans, what they found there and how they responded to it, and which lessons they ultimately brought back to the United States.» Organized by an international team of curators— Kathleen Adler from the National Gallery, London; Erica E. Hirshler from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and H. Barbara Weinberg from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York—the show made a three-city tour, ending in New York. The National Gallery’s initiation of and involvement in the organization of the exhibition suggests that late nineteenth-century American art may be receiving finally the attention it deserves on the other side of the Atlantic. However, no Parisian museum hosted the show, so the pictures could not be considered in relation to the place where many of them were produced and/or first exhibited.