Towards Impressionism: Landscape Painting from Corot to Monet

Impressionism is often considered the final nineteenth-century precursor to the radical experimentation of modernism. But every style has a precursorso what movements paved the way for the atmospheric light color and composition characteristic of the impressionist works themselves? The Muse des Beaux Arts Reims offers a choice selection of nineteenth-century French paintings that trace the history of French art from the Romantics to the School of Barbizon and the circle of Honfleur up to Impressionism. This beautifully illustrated volume follows the artistic forebears that led up to the works of Claude Monet Camille Pissarro and Pierre-Auguste Renoir by way of pastel palettes loose brushwork ordinary figures and natural landscapes.