William Lamb Picknell. Paysage (A Winter Day in Brittany), 1881.
The Baltimore Museum of Art: W. Clagett Emory Bequest Fund, in Memory of his Parents, William H. Emory of A and Martha B. Emory. BMA 2011.44
Since the 1950s, the Emory fund has added many fine American and European paintings to the collection. The latest, vigorously painted with a palette knife, recalls Gustave Courbet’s realism. Picknell’s monumental landscape garnered praise at the 1881 Paris Salon as “superb…one of the most remarkable pictures” among thousands on view.
