Landscapes From the Age of Impressionism: French and American Paintings May 3, 2008

This exhibition of 40 French and American paintings represents some of the finest examples of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century landscapes in the renowned collection of the Brooklyn Museum. The earliest works in the exhibition, dating from the 1850s and 1860s, demonstrate the impact of progressive, plein-air sketching practices on French landscape painting. They include important imagery by Barbizon and Realist painters, such as Charles Francois Daubigny, Henri-Joseph Harpignies and Gustave Courbet.