"This publication presents one hundred and fifteen drawings and paintings from the holdings of Karen B. Cohen, a noted New York collector. These French and English nineteenth-century works include landscapes, portraits, figure compositions, and still lifes by great artists of the Romantic period, of the Barbizon School, and of the Realist School, beginning with Prud'hon and ending with Seurat.

A varied range of compositions by such masters as Gericault, Corot, Roussea, Couture, Daubigny, and especially Delacroix is included. Among the highlights is a group of oil paintings by Courbet - both landscapes and portraits - and a series of cloud studies by Constable. Because these pictures have been held for so long in private hands, most are little known today, despite the fact that they were made by noted masters.

Many are published here for the first time, often with comparative illustrations."--BOOK JACKET.