​Impressionist Treasures at the Gallery, May 18 to Sept 6, 2018

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This collection features impressionist paintings from Camille Corot, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro and Pierre-Auguste Renoir and others.  Room after room of splendid landscapes, seascapes and lovely village scenes are gently depicted.  I present below some of my favourite paintings from this exhibit.

In particular, I want to mention two that I found to be quietly dazzling:  Corot's The Bridge at Mantes for its sweet tranquillity and Monet's The Chailly Road Through the Forest of Fontainebleu.  The Monet painting is quite large and I felt it had the ability to just pull in the viewer into the forest scene from across the room.  Amazing!

Two other favourite paintings were a pastel winter scene by Pissarro entitled Snowy Landscape, Eragny, Evening and Daubigny's Seascape, Overcast.  If you stood in front of the seascape long enough you could almost imagine taste the salt spray in the air and feel the crash of the frothy waves.

This is a lovely and enthralling exhibit.  Recommended!