The largest and most comprehensive retrospective ever presented in the United States of the career of J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851), one of the greatest landscape painters in the history of art, will premiere at the National Gallery of Art in Washington.

The art of French landscape painter Eugène Boudin (1824 - 1898) will get a rare showing in America, when Eugène Boudin at the National Gallery of Art goes on view in the National Gallery of Art's East Building, March 25 through April 5, 2007.

Paris in Transition: Photographs from the National Gallery of Art presents 61 of the Gallery's photographs revealing the transformation of the French capital city and the art of photography from the mid-19th to early 20th century.

A 1969 portfolio of twelve prints, 1st Etchings, 2nd State, by renowned artist Jasper Johns (b. 1930) is the focus of States and Variations: Prints by Jasper Johns. The exhibition, which includes 63 works dating from 1960-the year Johns first undertook printmaking-through 1982, highlights Johns' distinctive printmaking process.

For the first time an exhibition will focus on Netherlandish diptychs, featuring some of the most beautiful and intriguing paintings of the 15th and 16th centuries. Premiering at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, through February 4, 2007, Prayers and Portraits: Unfolding the Netherlandish Diptych includes 89 paintings, presenting 37 complete diptychs or pairs of paintings, reuniting some panels that have been separated for centuries, with 22 pairs on loan in the United States for the first time.

The exhibition Edward Hopper marks the first time in more than 25 years-in the case of Boston and Washington, more than 50-that a comprehensive exhibition of this great artist's work has been seen in American museums outside New York. This comprehensive survey will focus on the period of the artist's great achievements-from about 1925 to mid-century-when he produced such iconic paintings as Automat (1927), Drug Store (1927), Early Sunday Morning (1930), New York Movie (1939), and Nighthawks (1942).

Renowned for his paintings, Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) is equally regarded for his extraordinary accomplishment as a graphic artist. In his own time, his fame derived from his etchings as much as from his paintings. In celebration of the 400th anniversary of Rembrandt's birth, the National Gallery of Art is presenting Strokes of Genius: Rembrandt's Prints and Drawings.