Paintings and Drawings of the 19th and 20th Centuries

New York, Wildenstein, November 10-December 19, 1998

This exhibition celebrates the rivers of France, especially that of the Seine and its tributaries, the Marne, the Oise and the Loing. Over thirty oil paintings and some six watercolors and drawings are shown, with subjects ranging from the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris (examples by Albert Marquet, Maximilien Luce, and Albert Lebourg) to many of the sites renowned in the history of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, for example the Ile de La Grande Jatte, the village of Pontoise and the area around Monet's beloved home at Giverny.

Also depicted is the river Loue in the Jura region, the subject of one painting each by Courbet and his follower Cherubino Pata. Among the many artists featured in the exhibition are Bonnard, Eugéne Boudin, Gustave Caillebotte, Stanislas Lépine, Manet, Pissarro, Seurat, Sisley and Antoine Vollon.