In summer 2011, M – Museum Leuven will present the travelling exhibition Through the Romanticist’s Eyes, with an accompanying catalogue published by Mercatorfonds. More than 70 paintings offer a unique vision of 19th-century Belgian and Dutch Romantic painting. In the fall of 2010, this exhibition was mounted at the State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg.
The early nineteenth century was a momentous time: the French Revolution had swept away the secular certainties of the Ancien Régime , and the Napoleo…
