National Gallery Of Art Monet Masterpieces Portfolio Notes

This publication traces the story of the artistic influences on Monet leading up to the creation of his groundbreaking painting Impression, sunrise in 1872. Centred around this key work that gave Impressionism its name, for the first time Australian audiences will see Monet's paintings in the context of works that shaped the fledgling artist into the leader of Impressionism. The exhibition demonstrates the influence of English landscapists such as JMW Turner and Richard Parkes Bonington, the French Barbizon School and Realist artists working in the decades before Monet, including Charles Daubigny, Camille Corot and Gustave Courbet, as well as Eugène Boudin and Johan Barthold Jongkind, who worked directly with Monet, mentoring him and encouraging him to broaden his artistic approach.

This authoritative catalogue of the Corcoran Gallery of Art's renowned collection of pre-1945 American paintings will greatly enhance scholarly and public understanding of one of the finest and most important collections of historic American art in the world. Composed of more than 600 objects dating from 1740 to 1945.

"Examines the problematic serial nature of ... [Pissarro's] urban works"--Foreword.

Symbolizing energy and progress, the railroad became a focus for Impressionist painters Manet, Monet, and other artists after the Franco-Prussian War. Based on new research into the streets and studios of Paris, this book identifies the site of Manet's picture GARE SAINT-LAZARE, contrasts his major works of the 1870s with earlier key paintings, and situates the artist within his setting and associates of the time. 60 color and 101 bandw illustrations.