Soixante et un chefs-d'œuvre reproduits en grand format et en couleurs invitent à un parcours passionnant dans l'univers de Cézanne. Un texte clair et précis situe son oeuvre dans le XIXe siècle, montre ses principales découvertes et raconte l'histoire de sa vie.
From the Classicism of Jacques-Louis David to the Realism of Courbet and the Early Impressionism of Renoir, this book outlines the course taken by painting and sculpture in Europe during the 19th century. Faced with the untidy sprawl of individualism which followed the French Revolution and threw up isolated geniuses like Goya, the author nevertheless charts the currents in what was predominantly a century of Naturalism and also - whilst artists were increasingly preoccupied with "the inner man" - of great landscape-painting when Friedrich, Corot and the Impressionists proper added light and atmosphere to the former achievements of the great Dutch masters.
