Impressionist France: Visions of Nation from Le Gray to Monet
Travel to France through a ground-breaking exhibition offering a fresh perspective on landscape imagery in 19th century France. The exhibition explores for the first time the rich connections between landscape and national identity during a period in which France was fundamentally transformed.
The major exhibition, which includes 120 paintings and photographs from 37 institutions around America and Europe, will be presented as St. Louis celebrates the 250th anniversary of its founding by French settlers. The exhibition takes visitors on a journey to France through seven thematic sections exploring Paris and the modern cityscape; monuments; rivers and forests; rural and agricultural life; mountains; marine views; and railroads and factories.
Impressionist France: Visions of Nation from Le Gray to Monet focuses particularly on the years between 1850 and 1880. During these decades, painters and photographers traveled around France, exploring the exceptionally rich and varied range of history and geography in the nation.
These years saw the Golden Age of early photography, the culminating production of the Barbizon School, and the high point of early Impressionism.
Impressionist France includes important work by photographers such as Gustave Le Gray and Charles Marville, Barbizon School painters including Camille Corot and Th茅odore Rousseau, and Impressionist painters such as Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Edgar Degas, Paul C茅zanne, 脡douard Manet and Berthe Morisot. These artists composed competing visions of France as modern and industrialized or as rural and anti-modern.
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Travel to France through a ground-breaking exhibition offering a fresh perspective on landscape imagery in 19th century France. The exhibition explores for the first time the rich connections between landscape and national identity during a period in which France was fundamentally transformed.
The major exhibition, which includes 120 paintings and photographs from 37 institutions around America and Europe, will be presented as St. Louis celebrates the 250th anniversary of its founding by French settlers. The exhibition takes visitors on a journey to France through seven thematic sections exploring Paris and the modern cityscape; monuments; rivers and forests; rural and agricultural life; mountains; marine views; and railroads and factories.
Impressionist France: Visions of Nation from Le Gray to Monet focuses particularly on the years between 1850 and 1880. During these decades, painters and photographers traveled around France, exploring the exceptionally rich and varied range of history and geography in the nation.
These years saw the Golden Age of early photography, the culminating production of the Barbizon School, and the high point of early Impressionism.
Impressionist France includes important work by photographers such as Gustave Le Gray and Charles Marville, Barbizon School painters including Camille Corot and Th茅odore Rousseau, and Impressionist painters such as Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Edgar Degas, Paul C茅zanne, 脡douard Manet and Berthe Morisot. These artists composed competing visions of France as modern and industrialized or as rural and anti-modern.
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