The path of nature : French paintings from the Wheelock Whitney collection 1785-1850 / Asher Ethan Miller

Author:: Miller, Asher Ethan
Published:: New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art, [2013]
Copyright Date:: ©2013
Physical Description:: 48 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Additional Creators:: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

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"In 2003 the Metropolitan Museum acquired a collection of more than fifty paintings that represent a key period in European history, beginning in the 1780s with the advent of the French Revolution and concluding soon after the abdication in 1848 of France's last king, Louis-Philippe. Assembled by the New York connoisseur Wheelock Whitney between 1972 and 2000, this remarkable collection underscores the role of the natural world as a source of inspiration for European artists living on the cusp of the modern epoch, and it provides ample evidence of a rich tradition of painting out of doors, en plein air, nearly a century before Impressionism."--The Metropolitan Museum of Art web site.

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Catalog of the exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Jan. 22-Apr. 21, 2013.
"Metropolitan Museum of Art, winter 2013, volume LXX, number 3"

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Includes bibliographical references (page 48).

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