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In the Forest of Fontainebleau: Barbizon

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After some early visits, young landscape painters started to visit the forest in 1829, and became the Barbizon School.

October 11, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Laundresses in a landscape 1

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Landscapes featuring women washing linen and clothes from Isabey, Jongkind, Boudin, Berthe Morisot, Sisley and others.

September 14, 2024 General, Life, Painting

A to Z of Landscapes: Rivers

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Rivers, rather than their banks, have been an unusual theme in landscape painting. Examples from Daubigny’s series in northern France, the specialist Frits Thaulow, and many others.

June 13, 2024 General, Life, Painting

A to Z of Landscapes: Panoramas

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Although the term didn’t come into use until 1791, panoramic landscapes started earlier, and largely stopped by the end of the 19th century.

May 31, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 102 Fishing B

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Goya, Thomas Girtin, Tom Thomson, John Singer Sargent, Renoir, Eva Gonzalès and others painting anglers and those in pursuit of shellfish.

January 3, 2024 General, Life, Painting

A Weekend in the Eternal City: Paintings of the Palatine and Capitoline

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A visit to Rome, in the paintings of Valenciennes, Turner, Paul Bril, Gérôme, and others, and a little history of landscape painting.

March 18, 2023 General, Life, Painting

A Weekend on the River Seine in paintings: 2 Argenteuil to Le Havre

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Resuming the trip at Argenteuil, with Caillebotte and Monet, we pass Renoir at Chatou, La Grenouillère, on to Les Andelys, then to the sea at Honfleur, with Monet again.

August 21, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Barbizon, the road to Impressionism 2

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From 1853, painters of the Barbizon School continued to innovate. Then in 1865, the young Alfred Sisley and Auguste Renoir came to paint there.

April 10, 2022 General, Life, Painting

The Complete Angler in paintings 2

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More anglers caught with their rods and lines in paintings by Troyon, Corot, Hodler, Carl Larsson and a surprise catch from Tom Thomson.

February 13, 2022 General, Life, Painting

From world view to panorama: 2 Popular panoramas

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A World View with a high aspect ratio, they came to dominate in the latter half of the 19th century, some being major commercial attractions. Now ubiquitous.

February 7, 2021 General, Life, Painting

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