From The Classicists To The Impressionists

The nineteenth-century historian and artist shared the same aim, to present the unsystematic diversity of peoples, cultures, customs, and myths in a process of evolutionary transformation, that was to be comprehended by feeling.

"Published...on the occasion of the exhibition Impressionists on the Water on view at the Legion of Honor Museum, San Francisco, from June 1 to October 6, 2013 and at the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem Massachusetts, from November 9, 2013 to February 9, 2014."--Colophon.