Descrizione
Highlighting key moments in the French landscape tradition from the 1600s through the 1800s, Capturing Nature’s Beauty: Three Centuries of French Landscapes explores various aspects of the relationship between the artist and the land through a selectionof drawings from the Getty’s collection. These works clearly demonstrate the variety of techniques, functions, and styles that make the French landscape tradition so rich and intriguing.While French artists have depicted real expanses of land in recognizable ways since the late Middle Ages, landscapes at first served merely as decorative backdrops to human activity rather than as images in their own right. It was not until the early seventeenth-century that the land came to be considered a worthy artistic subject.
