the line against the brushstroke
Eighty years of French painting, from the 1780s to the Second Empire. David and his pupils polish myth and portrait to enamel, Delacroix answers with loose colour, and Corot and Valenciennes paint Rome straight from the motif.
14 digital works · source dimensions retained in pixels · no physical scale assigned
13 digital works · source dimensions retained in pixels · no physical scale assigned
14 digital works · source dimensions retained in pixels · no physical scale assigned
The collection brings together works from the Art Institute of Chicago and Cleveland Museum of Art Open Access collections and other openly licensed sources. Artist, title, date, medium, source and rights are printed under every plate. EPRIS Museum claims no rights in these images.