A blockbuster exhibit of French Impressionist paintings in Melbourne has shattered Australian attendance records for an art exhibition, drawing 333,000 patrons in the three months it has been on display at the National Gallery of Victoria. The state government is touting the attendance record as evidence that it was “the right move to invest in the Winter Masterpieces exhibition – a move to be continued next winter with works of the Dutch golden age from the Netherlands’ Rijksmuseum.”