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Constant Troyon (1810-1865)
Professions: Animal painter; Landscape painter
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CONSTANT TROYON (FRENCH, 1810-1865) Clairiere dans la Foret
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CONSTANT TROYON* (FRENCH, 1810-1865) RETURNING FROM PASTURE
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Constant Troyon (French, 1810-1865)
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Constant Troyon , Watering the Horses
Constant Troyon Biography
(b Sèvres, 28 Aug 1810; d Paris, 20 March 1865). French painter. He was brought up among the Sèvres ceramics workers and received his first lessons in drawing and painting from Denis-Désiré Riocreux (1791–1872), a porcelain painter who was one of the founders of the Musée National de Céramique. Troyon began his career as a painter at the Sèvres factory while also studying landscape painting in his spare time. He became a friend of Camille Roqueplan, who introduced him to a number of young landscape painters—especially Théodore Rousseau, Paul Huet and Jules Dupré—who were later to become members and associates of the BARBIZON SCHOOL. After an unremarkable début at the Salon of 1833, where he exhibited three landscapes depicting the area around Sèvres (e.g. View of the Park at Saint-Cloud ; Paris U., Notre-Dame), he took up his career in earnest and made several study trips to the French provinces. Following the example of contemporary collectors, he began to take a great interest in 17th-century Dutch painting, particularly the work of Jacob van Ruisdael, whose influence is seen in such early paintings as The Woodcutters (1839; La Rochelle, Mus. B.-A.). At the Salon of 1841 he exhibited Tobias and the Angel (Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz Mus.), a biblical landscape that attracted the attention of Théophile Gautier. The subject was intended to satisfy the critics, but the painting served as a pretext for portraying a realistic and sincere representation of nature, even though its ordered and classically inspired composition perfectly fitted the requirements of a genre, the origins of which were the 17th-century paintings of Claude and Poussin and their followers.
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Resting Cattle under a blooming Tree
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CONSTANT TROYON* (FRENCH, 1810-1865) VACHES A L'ABREUVOIR
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CONSTANT TROYON(Footnote 1) (FRENCH, 1810-1865) Horses Near a Fountain
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*CONSTANT TROYON FRENCH, 1810-65 PANORAMIC LANDSCAPE WITH A VIEW OF A DISTANT CITY stamped Vente Tro...
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