ARTISTS
True to Nature: Open-air Painting in Europe 1780-1870
In this unique exhibition, explore the inventive ways artists in the 18th and 19th centuries recorded fleeting moments in nature, capturing the effects of light, drama, and atmosphere first-hand in the open air.
The exhibition unites for the first time more than 100 oil sketches from the remarkable collections of The Foundation Custodia in Paris, The National Gallery of Art in Washington, and The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, together with a distinguished private collection of sketches, never before seen in public.
Featuring works by artists including John Constable, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, J.M.W. Turner, Edgar Degas and Louise-Jos茅phine Sarazin de Belmont, the thrill of these painters鈥� encounters with nature is palpable in their highly skilled, rapidly painted sketches. We see with their eyes and feel their wonder as they witness storm-torn skies, limpid rockpools, the dappled shade of a tree canopy or the awe-inspiring sight of an erupting volcano.
Some studied landscapes that were close to their homes and their hears, while others made arduous journeys to paint breathtaking sites 鈥榠n the field鈥�, from the Baltic coast and Swiss Alps to the ruins of Rome.
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In this unique exhibition, explore the inventive ways artists in the 18th and 19th centuries recorded fleeting moments in nature, capturing the effects of light, drama, and atmosphere first-hand in the open air.
The exhibition unites for the first time more than 100 oil sketches from the remarkable collections of The Foundation Custodia in Paris, The National Gallery of Art in Washington, and The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, together with a distinguished private collection of sketches, never before seen in public.
Featuring works by artists including John Constable, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, J.M.W. Turner, Edgar Degas and Louise-Jos茅phine Sarazin de Belmont, the thrill of these painters鈥� encounters with nature is palpable in their highly skilled, rapidly painted sketches. We see with their eyes and feel their wonder as they witness storm-torn skies, limpid rockpools, the dappled shade of a tree canopy or the awe-inspiring sight of an erupting volcano.
Some studied landscapes that were close to their homes and their hears, while others made arduous journeys to paint breathtaking sites 鈥榠n the field鈥�, from the Baltic coast and Swiss Alps to the ruins of Rome.
Artists on show
- Achille Etna Michallon
- Alexandre Calame
- André Giroux
- Anicet-Charles-Gabriel Lemonnier
- Anton Sminck Pitloo
- August Kopisch
- Auguste Bonheur
- Auguste-Xavier Leprince
- Augustus Leopold Egg
- Carl Blechen
- Carl Christian Constantin Hansen
- Carl Frederik Sørensen
- Carl Neumann
- Carl Wilhelm Götzloff
- Charles Nègre
- Christian Morgenstern
- Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg
- Claude Lorrain
- Daniel Herman Anton Melbye
- Edgar Degas
- Edmé-Adolphe Fontaine
- Ernst Christian Frederik Petzholdt
- Eugène Decan
- Eugène Isabey
- François Antoine Léon Fleury
- François Diday
- François Fleury Richard
- François Marius Granet
- François Pascal Simon Gérard
- Franz Ludwig Catel
- Frederik Hansen Sødring
- Frederik Rohde
- Georges Michel
- Giuseppe de Nittis
- Gustaf Wilhelm Palm
- Heinrich Reinhold
- Janus Andreas Barthotin la Cour
- Jean Baptiste Camille Corot
- Jean-Baptiste-Adolphe Gibert
- Jean-Honoré Fragonard
- Jean-Pierre-Xavier Bidauld
- Johan Christian Klausson Dahl
- Johan Jakob Frey
- Johan Thomas Lundbye
- Johann Martin Von Rohden
- John Constable
- Joseph Désiré Court
- Joseph Mallord William Turner
- Joseph Remond
- Jules Coignet
- Louis Dupré
- Louise Joséphine Sarazin de Belmont
- Louis-Leopold Robert
- Martinus Rorbye
- Max Hauschild
- Michel Dumas
- Odilon Redon
- Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes
- Raymond Monvoisin
- Richard Parkes Bonington
- Robert Léopold Leprince
- Rosa Bonheur
- Simon-Joseph-Alexandre-Clément Denis
- Theodore Caruelle d'Aligny
- Théodore Gudin
- Théodore Rousseau
- Thomas Fearnley
- Thomas Jones
- Vilhelm Kyhn
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