The World's Greatest Paintings

Dark to Bright - Courbet, Frederic, Monet (1x17)

Air date: Jan 01, 2010

French and American canvases reveal bold innovations in 19th-century painting. Contemplate the elements of Realism in Gustave Courbet's sprawling, slow-motion composition of a rural funeral, followed by Frederic Church's dynamically original depiction of Niagara Falls. Then study Monet's blaze of sunlight and color on a snowscape in The Magpie.