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Between 1800 and 1900, French landscape painting underwent a remarkable transformation from a minor [[genre]] rooted in classical traditions to a primary vehicle for artistic experimentation... This emphasis on timeless landscapes augmented with [[Historical Painting|historical]] vignettes persisted into the first decades of the nineteenth century, when the Neoclassical landscape painter Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes worked within the Academy to establish a ''Prix de Rome'' honoring "historical landscape" painting, first awarded in 1817. [http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/lafr/hd_lafr.htm]

Between 1800 and 1900, French landscape painting underwent a remarkable transformation from a minor [[genre]] rooted in classical traditions to a primary vehicle for artistic experimentation... This emphasis on timeless landscapes augmented with [[Historical Painting|historical]] vignettes persisted into the first decades of the nineteenth century, when the Neoclassical landscape painter Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes worked within the Academy to establish a ''Prix de Rome'' honoring "historical landscape" painting, first awarded in 1817. [http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/lafr/hd_lafr.htm] In 1800, Valenciennes published a groundbreaking book on landscape painting,'' Eléments de perspective practique''. [http://www.getty.edu/education/teachers/classroom_resources/curricula/landscapes/background1.html]

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