In the summer of 1869, Renoir was living at his parents’ house in Louveciennes, and Monet was living near Bougival. Together they painted the works that set out the manifesto of Impressionism.
landscape
In 1865, Bazille, Monet, Renoir, Sisley and CĂ©zanne started painting outdoors in front of the motif in the forest, and so Impressionism began.
After some early visits, young landscape painters started to visit the forest in 1829, and became the Barbizon School.
Unusual paintings to add novelty to a collection, with maritimes, river views, cloudscapes, Amsterdam burning, and a couple of distinctive ‘negatives’.
Matching views painted by Pissarro and CĂ©zanne of the CĂ´te des Boeufs, a rainbow, the village in winter snow, and Pissarro’s gradual change to Pointillism.
From Pissarro’s early realist landscapes of 1867, the landscapes of a forgotten Impressionist, to the first outdoor paintings of Paul CĂ©zanne made alongside Pissarro’s easel.
How the first cloudscapes were painted of the flat lands of the Dutch Republic, and their supports were turned to devote even more space for the sky.
Arcimboldo’s 4 in 1, two sets by Joos de Momper, one anthropomorphic the other of landscapes, and a splendid set by Pieter Brueghel the Younger.
He taught, and travelled more. Paintings include ‘Death, the Reaper’ and one of the last of his major oil paintings, ‘A Masque for the Four Seasons’ with its references to Botticelli’s Primavera.
A woman spinning in front of her bed, a view of a street, a waterfront, marketplace, boats on the river, canals, windmills, a sandy beach, clouds, and frozen rivers – everyday life in the Golden Age.
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