A Day in the Country: Impressionism and the French Landscape
Hardcover
1984
by Andrea P A Belloli
1984. Hardcover. VG/VG. Green cloth with glossy color dustjacket. 375 pp. 74 bw and 154 color plates. A heavy book. Contents as follows: 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. Published to accompany the exhibition held in Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, June 28 to Sept. 16, 1984, two other dates. (Inventory #: 104184)