Les travaux du Marché du Temple (1801-1900)

Marie-Désiré Bourgoin is the artist behind "Les travaux du Marché du Temple", dated 1801-1900. Historical background, 1801-1900: The first half of the nineteenth century moved from Neoclassicism to Romanticism, which placed emotion, nature, and the sublime at the centre of painting. The invention of lithography around 1796 and its spread in these decades made printed images cheaper and more varied. Background on Landscape: Painters have used landscape to study light, weather, season, and the relation between people and place. Landscape became an independent genre in European painting in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, while in East Asia it had long been central to ink painting. The catalogue places it in Landscape. The format is landscape.

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French, 1839–1912

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