Toward a New 19th-Century Art

Naturalist and symbolist painting of late nineteenth century France and Belgium encompasses subjects ranging from rural life to the concerns of urban artists, and the development of landscape as a symbolist genre. In this book, art historians Dr. Gabriel P. Weisberg and Dr. Janet Whitmore explore these topics in the context of an art collection that features previously unknown work by well known painters such as Jules Breton, Jules Bastien-Lepage, Léon Frédéric, Marie Braquemond, Jan Toroop and Jean-Charles Cazin.

Contents:
A New Look: The Later Nineteenth Century Reframed
The School of Tervuren
On Collecting
Catalogue
Bibliography