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So we laugh at the vain efforts made by an artist when he wants to imitate the color of the sun.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the onset of the nineteenth century, artists increasingly took to painting in oil outdoors, or\u00a0<em>en plein air<\/em>. As they did, the dilemmas that Valenciennes described were front of mind. This selection of oil sketches from the Thaw Collection explores how artists approached the relationship between luminosity and color. By portraying the sun directly, by painting the colors produced by the sun\u2019s indirect reflection, and by turning their gaze to the moon, which cast the sun\u2019s light more gently, these artists met the challenge of conjuring light from color.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his landmark 1800 treatise on landscape painting,\u00a0Elements of Practical Perspective,\u00a0Pierre Henri de Valenciennes lamented the difficulty of portraying the 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