History of Plein air

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French, 'outdoors' or 'outside', applied to painting outside. Though artists have always sketched and studied outside - landscape sketches survive from Albrecht Duerer and many Italian renaissance artists, many 19th century artists began working outside as a way of overcoming the constraints of work in the studio from sketches.