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From landscape to modern colour
Follow sunlight, smoke, snow and moving paint through ten works. Compare how Claude, Turner, Constable, Degas, Monet, Van Gogh, Seurat and Rousseau build places you can look into.
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The visit begins with Claude’s imagined harbour, moves through British landscapes and scenes of modern French life, then follows changes in colour and brushwork to Rousseau’s storm. It ends in Room 45.
Choose it for comparisons of colour, light and brushwork across a larger set of landscapes and scenes of modern life. Ten stops and the room transfers make this a longer visit. Allow 100–135 minutes, with time for a break.
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Image credits
- xiquinhosilva · Central Hall, National Gallery.jpg · CC BY 2.0 · WebP / AVIF
- https://www.flickr.com/photos/bryansjs · Entrance hall of the National Gallery, looking north.jpg · CC BY-SA 2.0 · WebP / AVIF
- https://www.flickr.com/photos/bryansjs · Entrance hall of the National Gallery, looking south.jpg · CC BY-SA 2.0 · WebP / AVIF
- Diego Delso · Bóveda de la sala 36, Galería Nacional, Londres, Inglaterra, 2014-08-11, DD 165-167 HDR.JPG · CC BY-SA 4.0 · WebP / AVIF
- Philafrenzy · National Gallery Sainsbury Wing staircase.jpg · CC0 · WebP / AVIF