This beautiful catalogue offers the first serious investigation of the landscapeproduction of the women Impressionists. Presenting fresh, contemporaryperspectives, it features both famous and little-known artists, such as BertheMorisot, Mary Cassatt, Marie Bracquemond and Blanche Hoschedé-Monet.This is the first book to focus on landscape and nature imagery in the workof the women Impressionists. Rather than concentrating on the domesticsubject matter of these artists, which has been widely discussed, this book,which accompanies a Saint Louis Art Museum exhibition, explores the lessdocumented outdoor spaces that were painted by the key women in the group,particularly Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, Marie Bracquemond and BlancheHoschedé-Monet.The book explores the way in which landscape imagery contributed tothe rise in status of women artists in France during the years 1860–1910. Itexamines a range of works, focusing especially on the work of Morisot, whotrained as a landscape painter and saw landscape imagery as a central part ofher practice. The book examines favoured iconographical themes, such as thepainting of marine and agricultural scenes, and parks and gardens. Central isimagery of a domesticated nature, such as Morisot’s paintings of the Bois deBoulogne, Bracquemond’s pictures at Sèvres and Cassatt’s views at the Châteaude Beaufresne after 1894.
