Scène de carnaval, place de la Concorde (1834)

Eugène Lami is the artist behind "Scène de carnaval, place de la Concorde", dated 1834. Context for 1834: Landscape gained new prestige through groups such as the Barbizon painters in France and the Hudson River School in the United States, and by mid-century Realism turned to ordinary people and everyday labour. 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 catalogue places it in Figurative. The format is landscape. Background on Figurative: Over the centuries, painters have used the figure to express social standing, narrative, and emotion. Figurative art depicts people and recognisable scenes, and it has been central to European painting since antiquity.

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French, 1800–1890

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