Capturing Nature's Beauty: Three Centuries of French Landscapes

by Édouard Kopp

This lovely book highlights key moments of the French landscape tradition from its emergence in the 1600s to its affirmation in the 1800s. The selected drawings from the Getty collection show a variety of techniques, functions, and styles, and include works by Fran?ois Boucher, Jacques-Louis David, Vincent van Gogh, Jean-Baptiste Oudry, Camille Pissaro, and Georges Seurat. Together, these images reveal a fascinating tension between a passion for the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0892369957
• ISBN13: 9780892369959
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.3" x 7.0"