Renoir's picture of a busty theatergoer, Saul Steinberg's drawings for the New Yorker, and 18th-century masterpieces from the Louvre are highlights of exhibitions at three of London's smaller museums next year. They will feature in shows at the Courtauld Gallery, the Dulwich Picture Gallery and the Wallace Collection, which together unveiled their 2008 slate at a press presentation yesterday. Renoir's "La Loge" (1874), a Montmartre model leaning over a theater parapet, is the centerpiece of a survey of 19th-century theater-box depictions by artists including Degas and Mary Cassatt, to be held at the Courtauld ("Renoir at the Theatre: Looking at 'La Loge,'" Feb. 21 - May 25, 2008.) The Dulwich will hold the first major overview of the U.S. artist whose work graced New Yorker covers for six decades ("Saul Steinberg: Illuminating the New Yorker," Nov. 26, 2008 - Feb. 15, 2009.) The Wallace Collection will borrow choice works by Chardin, Watteau and Boucher from the Louvre, part of the Paris museum's biggest bequest, which was donated by the Paris doctor Louis La Caze ("Masterpieces from the Louvre: The Collection of Louis La Caze," Feb. 14 - May 18, 2008.) Other Places"Our great sister institutions are fighting over big names," said Dulwich's director Ian Dejardin, in a dark suit and designer eyeglasses. "I feel we should be looking in other places." Dejardin said in a subsequent interview that the world's big museums battled over a "canon" of 10 or 15 household names, and "that leaves 99.9 percent of The Dulwich attracted a record 142,000 visitors in 2006, he said -- almost five times the number of people it drew 15 years ago. The gallery costs about 3 million pounds ($6.2 million) a year to run, and breaking even is "a struggle," he said. Corporate sponsors in recent years have been Coca-Cola Co., for the 2006 Winslow Homer show, and financial-services company Fortis, which backed the "Rembrandt and Co." show, giving "well above 50,000 pounds." In general, though, "a huge corporate institution will want the largest party space in London, and they won't travel more than three yards from their office," Dejardin said. The Dulwich Picture Gallery is situated in south London, a short train ride from Victoria station. The Wallace Collection has annual costs of about 6 million pounds, of which 2.8 million pounds are covered by government grant. It raises 880,000 pounds a year by hiring out space for events, and seeks to boost retailing revenue. The Wallace is getting 25,000 pounds from Barclays Plc, the U.K.'s third-biggest bank, to stage the La Caze show of loans from the Louvre. How was the Louvre persuaded to lend? "The Louvre's director Henri Loyrette is much more open-minded than in the past," said Wallace Director Rosalind Savill. "And in terms of French 18th-century art, the Wallace is where it's at." The Courtauld, meanwhile, plans to show its collection of works by Cezanne, Britain's finest, which include "Card Players" (c. 1892) ("The Courtauld Cezannes," June 26 - Oct. 5, 2008.)