Courbet and the Modern Landscape at three galleries

The website for the 2006 show at the Getty, Gustave Courbet and the Modern Landscape
is well-thought out and detailed. Several of the sections have audio and video to accompany the images, which can be zoomed and moved around. The reproduction quality of the paintings is very good except at higher magnification. One warning: the audio pieces are quite long, so don't click away from them unless you really don't want to finish listening, or from the video pieces either, for that matter. There is no way to get back to a particular spot without listening to the whole audio file. The good thing is that they are separate from the image, so that you can listen and examine the image at the same time.

An article titled "A Burly Father of Modernism ..." by Roberta Smith in the New York Times reviewed the show of the same name at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore. The Walters' web exhibit includes a video explaining the way the museum set up the exhibit and a selection of Courbet's work with accompanying music files. Not necessarily the kind of music I'd want to listen to while I was looking at paintings but at least there was original content meant to enhance the viewing experience.