Corot’s view from the Boboli Gardens, Thomas Cole, John Brett’s landscape masterwork, intimate view from local painters, and a portrait by Paul Sérusier.
Sérusier
Portraits in pastel by Baes and Laikmaa, and oils from Lovis Corinth, Christian Krohg, Emily Carr, Pierre Bonnard and Paul Sérusier.
This is the time to get out and admire the blossom on the trees, with the aid of Samuel Palmer, Millais, Millet, Sisley, and above all Vincent van Gogh.
Bottles of alcoholic drink as the way to disaster, absinthe, and the last need of the destitute. As virtuoso displays, and in still lifes.
Its reputation promoted by Gauguin and Émile Bernard, the artist’s colony was in the avant garde with Paul Sérusier and remained popular into the 20th century.
The Corydon Shepherd, those attending the Nativity, the Good Shepherd, Poussin’s flocks, Millet’s social realism, and Pissarro’s epitaphs.
Trees in blossom from Sérusier, Bonnard, Waterhouse, van Rysselberghe, Nikolai Astrup and others.
Weaving turned yarn into fabric ready to make into garments. Associations include industry, passing time, fidelity, and the myth of Arachne.
More wives from Raffaela Zeppa, through Lovis Corinth’s Charlotte Berend, to Pierre Bonnard’s Marthe, plus two husbands.
Paints using glue as their binder were revived by Pierre Bonnard, the Nabis and Odilon Redon in the late 19th century, with startling results.
