France, Mid-19th Century
The Barbizon School was a group of landscape artists working in the region of the French town of Barbizon. They rejected the Academic tradition, abandoning theory in an attempt to achieve a truer representation of the countryside, and are considered to be part of the French Realist movement.
Theodore Rousseau (not to be confused with naive artist Henri Rousseau) is the best-known member of the group. Other prominent members included Charles-Francois Daubigny and Constant Troyon.
Realist painters Camille Corot and Jean-Francois Millet are also sometimes loosely associated with this school.
The Barbizon School artists are often considered to have been forerunners of the Impressionists, who took a similar philosophical approach to their art.
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Chronological
Listing of Barbizon School Members
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 Flers,
Camille Diaz
de la Peña, Narcisse Veyrassat,
Jules Jacques Dupre,
Jules Rousseau,
Théodore |
Jacque,
Charles-Emile Daubigny,
Charles François Hunt,
William Morris Trouillebert,
Paul Désiré Martin
, Homer Dodge |
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