Impressionism Abroad: Boston and French Painting

By: Hirshler, Erica

The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston possesses one of the world's finest collections of 19th-century French and American art, with works by Degas, Manet, Pissarro, Renoir, Sisley, and Sargent. This colorful book, the first published on the collection, illustrates many of its highlights.Author Erica Hirshler outlines the history of the collection and considers the taste in Boston for atmospheric landscapes which, by the late 1880s, had led young Boston...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1903973775
• ISBN13: 9781903973776
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Royal Academy Publications
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 9.5" x 10.8"
• Age Range: 13 to 22 years
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary