London’s Courtauld Institute of Art (CIA) gallery will be exhibiting two famous works by the French Impressionist Edouard Manet together for the first time in 21 years.

Manet’s The Luncheon and A Bar at the Folies-Bergére were last seen together in 1983 at the Manet retrospective in Paris and New York.

The Luncheon dates back to 1868 and is on loan to the CIA from the Neue Pinakothek in Munich until 9 January 2005, while the other masterpiece is part of the Samuel Courtauld Trust’s collection.

The CIA is situated at Somerset House and houses 530 paintings, 7,000 drawings, 20,000 prints plus a wide collection of sculptures, ranging from medieval to modern times.