A Day in the country : : impressionism and the French landscape / [electronic resource] / Los Angeles County Museum of Art [and] the Art Institute of Chicago [and] Réunion des musées nationaux ; [edited by Andrea P.A. Belloli].. — Los Angeles, Calif. : : Los Angeles County Museum of Art,, 1984.. — 375 p. : : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.
"Exhibition itinerary: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, June 28-September 16, 1984; the Art Institute of Chicago, October 18, 1984-January 6, 1985; Galeries nationales d'exposition du grand palais, Paris, February 8-April 22, 1985"--T.p. verso. Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 368-370.
Impressionism in context / Richard Brettell and Scott Schaefer -- The Impressionist landscape and the image of France / Richard Brettell -- A day in the country. The French landscape sensibility / Scott Schaefer -- The cradle of impressionism / Richard Brettell -- The urban landscape / Sylvie Gache-Patin -- Rivers, roads, and trains / Scott Schaefer -- Pissarro, Cézanne, and the School of Pontoise / Richard Brettell -- Private and public gardens / Sylvie Gache-Patin -- The fields of France / Richard Brettell -- Impressionism and the sea / Sylvie Gache-Patin and Scott Schaefer -- The retreat from Paris / Scott Schaefer -- Impressionism and the popular imagination / Scott Schaefer -- Appendix : the landscape in French nineteenth-century photography / Françoise Heilbrun.
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