Diploma Lecture Series 2013 Revolution to : European Art and Culture 1750-1850

Romanticism and Nature: French Landscape painting

Dr Chiara O'Reilly, University of Sydney

30/31 October 2013

Lecture summary:

This lecture examines the shifting role of landscape in nineteenth century France. I will explore the development of landscape in France and how it reflected changing ideas of nature, new artistic influences and the Romantic interest in personal experience and expression.

Slide list:

1. Eugène Delacroix, Clouds in the sky, nd watercolour on paper, Musée du Louvre, Paris 2. Léon Cogniet, The Artist in His Room at the Villa Medici, Rome, 1817, oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio 3. Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes, Classical Landscape with Figures and Sculpture,1789, Oil on panel, The Getty Center Los Angeles 4. Honoré Daumier , Landscape painters at work ,1862, Lithograph 5. Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes,Classical Greek Landscape with Girls Sacrificing their hair to Diana on the banks of a river, 1790, Oil on Canvas, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, Massachusetts *6. Théodore Rousseau, Group of Oaks, Apremont, Forest of Fontainebleau, 1852 Oil on canvas, Musée du Louvre, Paris 7. Valenciennes, View of Rome in the Morning, 1782-84, oil on paper laid on board, Musée du Louvre, Paris 8. Valenciennes , At the Villa Farnese: The Ruins (nd) oil on white paper on cardboard, Musée du Louvre, Paris 9. Achille-Etna Michallon, Landscape with Philoctetes on the Island of Lemnos, 1822 oil on canvas, Musée Fabre, Montpellier 10. Camille Corot Fontainebleau; Oak Trees at Bas-Breau, 1832-33, oil on paper, laid down on wood, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, 1979, The Metropolitan Museum of Art *11. Corot, Hagar in the Wilderness 1835 oil on canvas Rogers Fund 1938 The Metropolitan Museum of Art 12. , The Hay Wain, 1821, oil on canvas, National Gallery, London 13. Jacob Isaacksz van Ruisdael The Thicket (Path in the Haarlem Dunes) c1649 Oil on canvas, Musée du Louvre, Paris 14. Georges Michel, Mills at Montmartre no date, oil on canvas, Musée Carnavalet, Paris 15. , Tour du Gros-Horloge, Evreux 1824, Lithograph Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco 16. Paul Huet, View of the Château d’Arques, Dieppe, 1840, oil on canvas, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Orléans

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17. Camille COROT, An Artist Passing through a Chaos of Rocks at Fontainebleau, c1830 oil on canvas, Musée d’Art et d’histoire, Neuchâtel * 18. Théodore Rousseau Gathering Wood in the Forest of Fontainebleau,about 1850–1860, oil on canvas , Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Bequest of Mrs.David P. Kimball 19. Narcisse-Virgilio Diaz de la Peña, 1807 - 1876 Common with Stormy Sunset, 1850, oil on wood, The National Gallery, London 20. Rousseau, Under the beech trees, evening (The Parish priest), 1842-3, oil on canvas, Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio 21. Rousseau, An old oak close to Fontainebleau, 1852 oil on canvas, Mesdag Collection, The Hague 22. Barye, Le Rageur, no date (circa 1850-1860) oil on canvas, Fontainebleau, mairie 23 Corot, The rocks of Fontainebleau oil on paper mounted on canvas, Musee d’Art et d’Histoire , Senlis 24. Corot, Le Rageur c1830, oil on canvas, Private Collection 25. Théodore Claude-Félix Caruelle d' Aligny, Rocks at Fontainebleau, c1842 oil on paper mounted on canvas Musée du Louvre, Paris Gift of Maurice Bourdot-Lamotte, 1951 26. Théodore Caruelle d’Aligny, View of the sandstone quarries of Mont Saint-Père, forest of Fontainebleau c 1833, oil on canvas Clermont-Ferrand, Musée des Beaux Arts 27. Claude-François Denecourt, Map of the Forest of Fontainebleau, 1839 28. Anon, Landscape painters in Fontainebleau forest: Study after nature by a Merchant of Umbrellas and Parasols, published in L’llustration 1849 29. Rousseau, Edge of the Forest of Fontainebleau, Sunset 1848-1850, oil on canvas, Musée du Louvre

Reference:

Adams, Steven, The and the Origins of , London, 1994

Greenberg, Susan, 'Reforming Paysage historique: Corot and the Generation of 1830' in Art History, 27, 2004.

Herring, Sarah, Corot to Monet: French Landscape painting, The National Gallery, London, 2009

Jones, Kimberly et al, In the forest of Fontainebleau: painters and photographers from Corot to Monet, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art Washington, 2008.

Noon, Patrick., et al., Constable to Delacroix. British art and the French Romantics. 1820-1840, exh.cat., Tate London, 2003

Honour, Hugh, Romanticism, London 1979

Thomas, Greg M., Art and ecology in nineteenth-century France. The landscapes of Théodore Rousseau, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2000

Vaughan, William, Romanticism and Art, London, 1994

Image sources include RMN photo - http://www.photo.rmn.fr/ and Artstor - http://www.artstor.org/

Images:

Théodore Rousseau (1812-1897) Group of Oaks, Apremont, Forest of Fontainebleau, 1852. Oil on canvas, 64 x 100cm, Musée du Louvre, Paris.

Camille Corot, Hagar in the Wilderness 1835, oil on canvas 180.3 x 270.5cm. Rogers Fund 1938, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (38.64).

Théodore Rousseau (1812-1867), Gathering Wood in the Forest of Fontainebleau, c 1850–1860. Oil on canvas 54.6 x 65.4 cm, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Bequest of Mrs David P. Kimball.