Observed en plein air – a motif that underwent a decisive transformation from the 1830s onwards thanks to the naturalists connected to the Barbizon group – the landscape is illustrated by some of its most significant representatives: Corot, Daubigny and Rousseau.

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Through a realist lens, Henri Fantin-Latour revisits the still life motif in the light of the ‘Baudelerian’ concept of modern life painters, to which the artist added his unique intimate vision.

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The urban views, represented by Stanislas Lépine, are the focus of a new impulse sustained by an idea of modernity associated with industrial progress in the late nineteenth century – which culminated with the raising of the Eiffel Tower, for the Exposition Universelle of 1889, Paris.

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In a distinctive reinterpretation of the seascapes motif from the seventeenth-century Dutch tradition, Eugène Boudin represented French coastline in the regions of Normandy and Brittany, in a style that inspired the ‘revolution of the gaze’ by the impressionist movement in 1874.

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The collection of paintings on display evoke artistic worlds treasured by Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian and find a shared creative purpose in the representation of reality.