Venice was “too beautiful to be painted,” according to Claude Monet. Yet he painted the Italian city anyway.

Edouard Manet's "Olympia" will go on display with a kindred painting next month in Venice, in the work's much anticipated first trip out of Paris since 1890, France's Musee d'Orsay said Wednesday.

A rare painting by famed French Impressionist Claude Monet from his only trip to Venice will return to the city it was created next month for a one-day exhibition before the work – which hasn’t been ...