National Gallery of Australia | Audio Tour | Turner to Monet: the triumph of landscape

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Audio guide to thirty-two works from the Turner to Monet: triumph of Landscape exhibition shown at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 14 July – 16 October 2006.

Camille COROT, Bridge on the Saône River at Mâcon [also known as Village on the riverbank [Le Village au bord de la rivière]] 1834

August 20, 2008

Corot was modest and chaste. He never married, in company was nearly always overlooked, the Salon ‘treated him rudely,’ and the only painting by him t...

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J M W TURNER, Waves breaking against the wind c.1835

August 20, 2008

By the early 1830s Turner was a regular visitor to the seaside town of Margate, on the eastern tip of the county of Kent, about seventy miles downrive...

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Isaac JENNER, Cape Chudleigh, Coast of Labrador 1893, reworked 1895

August 20, 2008

A large, ambitious scene of arctic exploration, imagined fifty years after the event and half a world away, seems an unlikely Australian project. Jenn...

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Jules BASTIEN-LEPAGE, Snow effect, Damvillers [Effet de neige, Damvillers] c.1882

August 20, 2008

painting, oil on canvas, 43.0 (h) x 53.0 (w) cm, Museum purchase, Grover A. Magnin Bequest Fund.

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Georges SEURAT, Lucerne, Saint-Denis [La Luzerne, Saint-Denis] 1885

August 20, 2008

Here we see a field of lucerne, the green crop infiltrated by red poppies. Along the skyline is strung a series of pale sheds and outbuildings under a...

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Paul CÉZANNE, Viaduct at l'Estaque [Le viaduct à l'Estaque] 1882

August 20, 2008

L’Estaque, a fishing village on the French coast of the Mediterranean, was a place that Cézanne visited often in the 1870s and 1880s. Why, amongst mor...

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Frederic Edwin CHURCH, South American landscape 1856

August 20, 2008

This is a devotional image, paying homage to science, Nature and God. Huge in its pictorial implications, the painting is nonetheless modest in size. ...

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Johan DAHL, Ausbruch des Vesuvs [Eruption of Vesuvius] 1823

August 20, 2008

… this amazing mountain continues to exhibit such various scenes of sublimity and beauty at exactly the distance one would chuse to observe it from; a...

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Caspar FRIEDRICH, Zwei Männer in Betrachtung des Mondes [Two men looking at the moon] 1830s

August 20, 2008

Two men on a hillside, standing on a stony outcrop, look at the crescent moon shining in a luminous sky. Framed between a strong, sinuous oak and an a...

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Gustav COURBET, Source of the Lison [La Source de la Lison] 1864

August 20, 2008

Although a genius, Courbet was certainly a magnet for trouble. No other artist in nineteenth-century France so often found himself surrounded by contr...

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