Nineteenth-Century Landscapes

The most incisive artistic innovations in nineteenth-century European art were made through landscape painting. The High’s collection covers the most important of these developments: the practice of painting out of doors introduced by artists of the Barbizon School such as Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot; the focus on light and atmosphere favored by the Impressionists including Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, and Alfred Sisley; and the exploration of scientific color theories by Post-Impressionists like Maximilien Luce.