Comparing Paintings First Leaves, Near Mantes and View of Paris From The Trocadero

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one's self to enjoy might only take into consideration subject matter, painting techniques, what the painting represents both literally and figuratively to the buyer.
Buying a painting for a public collection must take all those things into account also, save one. Whether it appeals to the curator on a personal level or not is irrelevant. By its nature, paintings that appeal to one person will leave 99 others cold.
So, how to decide? What will be the tie-breaker between these paintings of Corot and Morisot.
Possibly the tie can be broken by technique. Corot's technique is more studied, more dependent on the time-honored painterly habit of blending brushstrokes and applying texture in a subtle and understated way.
Morisot uses the brush in a more modern way, using strokes that not only don't blend into each other, but often overlap in a very visible manner. She lays on more clearly defined strokes of broader color than does Corot.
Color itself might be a ...

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art being created in France at that time? (And then, of course, one has to determine whether a better purchase is the more or less typical painting. But first things first.)
The subject matter of both paintings is nominally modern. Corot has not painted a hunting scene, with noble people gathering realistically rendered dead birds, every pin feather in place and perfect. He has not painted anything noble at all, at least not in terms of earlier eras when the only fit subjects for paintings had at least to be squires on the rise, if not actually nobility. Nor has he painted the sentimental view of peasants that were the only fit subjects of non-noble paintings until Corot's day. ...

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