The Path of Nature

“The Path of Nature: French Paintings from the Wheelock Whitney Collection, 1785–1850” opens today. This collection reveals a rich tradition of painting out of doors nearly a century before Impressionism, thus amplifying the role of the natural world as a source of inspiration to artists on the cusp of the modern epoch. http://met.org/11EPEIg

François-Édouard Picot (French, 1786–1868) | View of Porta Pinciana from the Gardens of the Villa Ludovisi | ca. 1814–17