Barbizon (Mid 19th Century)

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About Barbizon

Description of Barbizon
Examples of Barbizon
Barbizon Artists - 11
Auction Houses - 468

Barbizon
Group of French painters associated with the Forest of Fontainebleau near Paris and especially with the village of Barbizon. The main members of this informal group were Narcisse Diaz, Jules Dupré, Théodore Rousseau, Constant Troyon and Jean-François Millet; they formed a recognizable school from the early 1830s to the 1870s. Mainly concerned with landscape, they had little interest in the classical conventions of Claude and Poussin and were more influenced by Dutch landscape painting of ... (view more)

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Examples of Barbizon at Auction

Artists Associated with Barbizon — 11 artists:

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot Charles Francois Daubigny Narcisse Diaz Jules Dupre Camille Flers Charles Emile Jacque

Jean Francois Millet Theodore Rousseau Paul Desire Trouillebert Constant Troyon Jules Jacques Veyrassat

Auction Houses that have sold Barbizon works - 468

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