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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
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Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
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Summary
"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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Note
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"
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (page 48).
Part Of
Metropolitan Museum of Art bulletin
New ser., v. 70, no. 3 (winter 2013)
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