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Art Review: 'True to Nature: Open-air Painting in Europe' - National Review

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Jean-Charles Rémond (1795–1875), The Eruption of Stromboli, August 30, 1842, 1842. Oil on paper mounted on canvas, 10 5/8 by 14 9/16 in. (Private collection)
The little known Custodia Foundation’s exhibition of open-air painting is a joy.

NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T rue to Nature: Open-air Painting in Europe, 1780-1870 is the straightforward, even banal title of an extraordinary exhibition, shown at an extraordinary place few Americans, I think, even know. The show of 115 small paintings, all done outdoors, with the subject before the artist, is at the Custodia Foundation, a museum, archive, and think tank on rue de Lille in Paris. I’d never visited. I knew it for its collection of Old Master drawings and prints, its 40,000-item archive of letters written by artists, and its Dutch founder, Frits Lugt.

Frits Lugt. (Courtesy Fondation Custodia)

Lugt (1884–1970) compiled the definitive catalogue of

(Fondation Custodia, Collection Frits Lugt)
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