French Painting

French Painting posts cover several centuries of work, from the seventeenth-century classicism of Poussin and Claude through Rococo with Watteau and Fragonard, the neoclassicism of David, romanticism with Delacroix and Gericault, realism with Courbet, and the Impressionist generation of Monet, Renoir, Pissarro and Berthe Morisot. There are also notes on the Salon system and why the Impressionists had to organise their own shows, the move into post-Impressionism with Cezanne and Seurat, and the early twentieth-century Paris of Matisse, Bonnard and the School of Paris emigres.