262. Monet, Monet’s House at Argenteuil, 1873

Gardens were a favorite subject of impressionist painters. Their rich and fecund images of a blooming, apparently natural world, often engulfing the human figures enclosed within it (fig. 9.1), have in their turn become a source of delight today. The huge modern popularity of impressionist renderings of gardens and other landscapes both derives from and fuels a...

Author

John Dixon Hunt

PublisherMIT Press

Related print edition pages: pp.243-283

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00056.013

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Chapter subject tags:Ecology in artImpressionism (Art)--FranceNature in artGardens in artRural-urban relations in art

6. Suburban Leisure

Robert L. Herbert

Impressionism: Art, Leisure, and Parisian Society

In 1886, when Louis Barron published his book on the environs of Paris, the national census showed that only 20% of the inhabitants of the suburbs had been born in the commune they resided in. Another 24% had been born elsewhere in the suburbs or in Paris, so one could say that 44% were natives of the immediate region....

Author

Robert L. Herbert

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.195-263

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00067.010

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Chapter subject tags:Seine River (France)Monet, Claude, 1840-1926Impressionism (Art)Renoir, Auguste, 1841-1919Railroads in art

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