Capturing Nature's Beauty: Three Centuries of French Landscapes summer entertaining "Imparts a wealth of information

"Imparts a wealth of information on 15th-century book illumination…offers realistic watercolors that give a lively sense of the bustling Paris of nearly 600 years ago

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Nicholas Stanley Price is former deputy director of the Training Program at the Getty Conservation Institute

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Mette Moltesen on de-restoring and re-restoring in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek

Capturing Nature's Beauty: Three Centuries of French Landscapes summer entertaining "Imparts a wealth of informationdouard Kopp This lovely book highlights key moments of the French landscape tradition from its emergence in the 1600s to its preeminence in the 1800s. The selection of drawings from the Getty's collection shows a variety of techniques, functions, and styles, and includes examples by Franois Boucher, Vincent van Gogh, Claude Lorrain, Jean Baptiste Oudry, Camille Pissarro, Thodore Rousseau, and Georges Seurat. Together these images reveal a fascinating