The Musee des Beaux-Arts, Reims owns the second largest collection of works by Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot after the Louvre, as well as excellent landscape paintings by artists of the Barbizon School. Corot was one of the most significant painters involved with the barbizonists. Studying the Reims holdings further, it seemed evident to edit a catalogue and curate an exhibition that reaches from the romantic spirit in French landscape painting to the School of Barbizon on to the group of artists around Eugene-Louis Boudin at Honfleur - the true cradle of Impressionism - and lastly to the impressionists Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro and Pierre-Auguste Renoir.00Exhibition: Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Winter Park, USA (20.01.-08.04.2018) / Frye Art Museum, Seattle, USA (12.05.-05.08.2018)

• The Romantic spirit of French landscape painting / Michael Clarke, former Director, Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh
• Michael Clarke, former Director, Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh
• Frances Fowle, Reader in History of Art, University of Edinburgh ; Senior Curator, Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh Corot and the School of Barbizon / "The true cradle of Impressionism": Eugene Boudin, Claude Monet, and the School of Honfleur /