This artist’s colony developed in the 1860s, and soon became popular with Americans studying in Paris. It attained fame with Paul Gauguin, who first visited in 1886.
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Paintings from Norway to California, from Nikolai Astrup, Ants Laikmaa, Lovis Corinth, George Breitner, George Clausen, Paul Nash and Colin Campbell Cooper.
Views of France, from the island of Groix in the north-west, to Saint-Tropez in the south. By Signac, Bonnard, Vallotton, van Rysselberghe, and others.
Passes of St Gothard, Chalus in N Iran, the Pyrenees, the Vikos Gorge, the Daryal Gorge in the Caucasus, the Simplon and others.
Mountain huts, refuges, and inns by Calame, Hodler. Rosa Bonheur and others, with a couple of photos of truly awe-inspiring huts in the Alps.
A nocturne by Luce, Hokusai-inspired waves by Lacomb the Nabi sculptor, Moret’s coastal views, and two portraits by Elizabeth Nourse.
Its weather is often wild, with mountainous seas. Views of its rugged coast, seaweed harvesting, and religious pardons.
The hills are alive with eagles, black grouse, sheep, highland cattle, deer, and even the occasional goat.
The sun is near the horizon, but is it dawn or dusk? How to tell them apart without trusting a title that may not be the artist’s.
Romantic views of castles in the mountains from Carl Friedrich Lessing, and more accurate accounts by Gustave Courbet and others.
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