However, the focus of the exhibition is placed on the landscape sketches popular during the age of German Romanticism, with particular emphasis on the Dresden school.

The Ralph R. Haugwitz art dealership has always promoted works by members of this school.

A fortunate coincidence facilitated the combination of works by forerunners and representatives of Dresden Romanticism on the occasion of the exhibition in Paris, which comprises five successive generations of artists who completed their artistic apprenticeships simultaneously. Adrian Zingg was apprenticed to J. R. Holzhalb in Zurich, and later to J. G. Wille in Paris, before being appointed to the Dresden Academy of Arts in 1766. His pupil, C. A. Richter, went on to teach his own son, A. L. Richter. The exhibition includes a series of works by the latter’s pupils V. P. Mohn, Sophus Ruge and Heinrich Dreber. Another important landscape painter from the Dresden school is Johan Christian Dahl. Works by both him and his pupils C. R. Croll, F. Gille, R. Kummer and E. F. Oehme are on display. Examples of Austrian (F. Gauermann) and Swiss Romanticism (F. Salathé, E. Steiner) and works from the Munich school (A. A. Zimmermann) complete the panorama of Northern Romanticism, which is supplemented by a nature study by Friedrich Overbeck, the principal representative of the Nazarene movement.