Exhibition: The Path of Nature, Metropolitan Museum of Art: French Paintings From the Wheelock Whitney Collection, 1785-1850.
A group of mostly oil-on-paper landscape paintings made en plein air in Italy, these works were mostly intended as studies for large paintings. But the have, as Holland Cotter states in his NYT Review, what John Constable called “ ‘sparkle with repose’.”
And how they validate for me my love of the landscape genre. And how marvelous the lighting, and revealing, considering that most of them were made before Impressionism’s boom begins. They have the softness of The Barbizon School to my eye. Delightful, fresh masterful painting. Not famous, but as least now viewed, always really really exceptional.
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