BEIJING, Nov. 4 (Xinhua) -- About 80 works from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris will be showcased at the Shanghai Museum from Tuesday to Feb. 9, 2020, according to the museum's website.

Titled "The Birth of Art," the exhibition will present works including oil paintings, sculptures, sketches and manuscripts dating from the Renaissance to the Napoleonic era, showing French and European art history from the 17th to 19th centuries.

The exhibited works will include masterpieces by artists such as Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Jacques-Louis David and Nicolas Poussin.

Most of the works in the show will be exhibited in China for the first time.