Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926), Les Iles à Port-Villez (The Islets at Port-Villez), 1897. Oil on Canvas, 32 X 39 5/8 in. Frame: 41 5/8 X 49 3/8 X 4 1/2 in. Signed lower left: “Claude Monet 97”. Brooklyn Museum. Bequest of Grace Underwood Barton

NEW YORK.- Landscapes from the Age of Impressionism, an exhibition of some forty paintings, including many of the finest examples of mid- and late- nineteenth- century French and American landscape in the Brooklyn Museum’s collection, just opened. Ranging in date from the 1850s to the early twentieth century, the works presented offer a broad survey of landscape painting as practiced by such leading French artists as Gustave Courbet and Claude Monet and their most significant American followers including Frederick Childe Hassam and John Singer Sargent. (courtesy www.Artdaily.org)

Frederick Childe Hassam (American, 1859-1935), Poppies on the Isles of Shoals, 1890, Oil on Canvas. 18 X 21 15/16 in. Frame: 25 3/4 X 29 5/8 X 4 in. Signed lower right: “Childe Hassam 1890”. Gift of Mary Pratt Barringer and Richardson Pratt, Jr. Brooklyn Museum. In memory of Richardson and Laura Pratt.