Key Works Unlocked: Peel and Suzor-Coté highlights two paintings in the Agnes collection: Paul Peel’s While Baby Sleeps and Marc-Aurèle de Foy Suzor-Coté’s Wet Snow, Arthabaska. Peel and Suzor-Coté were among the first Canadian artists to study abroad. While Peel became a master of Academic painting, Suzor-Coté applied an Impressionist palette to the surrounding countryside of his Quebec hometown.

This exhibition also delves into the mysteries of art-world authorship and authenticity, drawing upon research by graduate students in the Art Conservation Program at Queen’s University.

Hero image: Marc-Aurèle de Foy Suzor-Coté, Wet Snow, Arthabaska (detail), around 1919, oil on canvas. Gift of Mrs Ruth Soloway, 2012 (55-004.45) Photo: Bernard Clark