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Léon Bonvin (French, 1834 – 1866) Landscape with a Bare Tree and a Plowman, 1864 Pen and brown ink, watercolor, and gum arabic The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
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July 28, 2009 – Nov 1, 2009
Tuesdays–Fridays (10am–5:30pm)
Saturdays (10am–9pm)
Sundays (10am–5:30pm)
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Directions: Driving: The Getty Center is located near the intersection of the San Diego Freeway (the 405) and the Santa Monica Freeway (the 10). Take the Getty Center Drive exit from the 405 and follow the signs to the main gate on Sepulveda Boulevard.
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This selection of over 40 drawings from the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Getty Research Institute highlights key moments in the French landscape tradition, from its emergence in the late 1600s to its preeminence in the 1800s.
The exhibition showcases drawings by some of the masters of the genre, including Nicolas Poussin, Claude Lorrain, François Boucher, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Camille Pissarro, and Vincent van Gogh.
Together these works reveal a tension between a passion for the real and the quest for an ideal. They demonstrate different facets of the relationship between the artist and the land: from simple record to creative transformation, if not pure invention.
