Although the attendance far exceeded the museum's internal estimates before the opening of "Sensation," it did not come close to matching the 250,000 people who attended a recent Monet exhibition at the museum.

In the museum's recent history, the largest opening-day turnout was recorded during a Monet exhibition two winters ago.

The museum's previous single-day record was on Jan. 3, 1998, when 5,979 people saw the Monet exhibition.

The exhibition drew approximately 300,000 visitors, significantly more than usual, but less than the 813,000 visitors attracted to the Royal Academy's Monet exhibition in 1999.

The Monet exhibition will bring together for the first time almost 100 paintings of cliffs, cathedrals and the Creuse Valley.

He had seen the Monet exhibition at MOMA.

Attendance in the last fiscal year was 585,000, helped by a big Monet exhibition.

A recent Monet exhibition with record attendance was extended twice.

I suspect that men who have been dragged to Monet exhibitions over the years will seek revenge here, though anyone with design sense will do fine in it.

Thousands stood in bitter cold for hours last winter to see a Monet exhibition.