Sunday, August 28, 2016

French Landscapes at the Metropolitan Museum

Théodore Géricault
Evening Landscape with Aqueduct
1818
oil on canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Théodore Caruelle d'Aligny
Edge of a Wood
ca. 1850
oil on canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Regarding the lofty mission of the public art museum, Edmond de Goncourt wrote a note that was printed after his death in 1896. The following text appeared at the head of the sale catalog when the collections built up throughout his lifetime were dispersed 

"My wish is that my drawings, my prints, my curios, my books, the things that have been the happiness of my life, not suffer the cold tomb of the museum and the stupid gaze of the indifferent passerby: I ask that they all be dispersed under the auctioneer's hammer and that the pleasure each one of them afforded me be given again to those who inherit my tastes."

Antoine Félix Boisselier
Gorges of Amalfi
ca. 1811
oil on paper
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Jean Victor Bertin
Classical Landscape with Figures
1803
oil on panel
Metropolitan Museum of Art

 Léon Pallière
View of the Garden at the Villa d'Este
ca. 1814-17
oil on paper
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Alexandre Desgoffe
View of the Roman Campagna
19th century
oil on paper
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Claude Monet
Palm Trees at Bordighera
1884
oil on canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Jean-François Millet
Haystacks : Autumn
1874
oil on canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Anonymous French painter
Landscape
19th century
oil on canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Alfred Sisley
Road from Versailles to Louveciennes
ca. 1879
oil on canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Gustave Courbet
View of Ornans
1850s
oil on canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Camille Pissarro
Poplars, Éragny
1895
oil on canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Auguste Renoir
View of the Seacoast near Wargemont in Normandy
1880
oil on canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Georges Seurat
View of the Seine
1882-83
oil on panel
Metropolitan Museum of Art