To mark the 150th anniversary of the first Impressionist exhibition, and in conjunction with the exhibition “Paris 1874. Inventing Impressionism” exhibition, which opened its doors at the Musée d’Orsay on 6 March 2024, a series of 6 lectures for the general public looks at Impressionism from a fresh and dynamic angle.

This second lecture looks at how the Impressionists depicted the climate. At a time when climate change is so much in the news, don’t these paintings reveal a climatic past that’s long gone? Are Monet, Sisley, Pissarro and others the transmitters of climatic realities?

A talk by Alexis Metzger, teacher-researcher at the Ecole de la Nature et du Paysage in Blois.

In French with English subtitles.

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