Barbizon School

Landscape painters who, from the 1830s, left Paris to work in and around the village of Barbizon on the edge of the forest of Fontainebleau. Théodore Rousseau, Jean-François Millet, Charles-François Daubigny, Narcisse Díaz and Jules Dupré, with Camille Corot as a close ally, painted French woods, fields and peasants directly from nature, rejecting the tidy, classical landscapes of the Academy. Inspired by Constable and the Dutch, they worked outdoors on sketches and finished in the studio, in browns and greens with heavy skies. Their example led straight to Impressionism and to similar schools in Holland, Russia and America.

How to tell it apart: compared with Impressionism it is darker and more solid, with brown foliage and finished surfaces; compared with Romantic landscape it is quieter and humbler.

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Artists

Winslow Homer · Jean-François Millet · Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot · George Inness · Asher Brown Durand · Nicolae Grigorescu · Théodore Rousseau · Charles-François Daubigny · Karl Bodmer · John Frederick Kensett · Narcisse Virgilio Díaz · Jules Dupré · Constant Troyon · Félix Ziem · Charles Jacque · Paul Désiré Trouillebert · François-Louis Français · Léon Germain Pelouse · Adolphe-Félix Cals

Best-known works

“The Gleaners” — Jean-François Millet, 1857
“On the Way to the Market” — Constant Troyon, 1859
“View on the Outskirts of Granville” — Théodore Rousseau, 1833
“Diana and Actaeon (Diana Surprised in Her Bath)” — Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, 1836
“Market-Place in Normandy” — Théodore Rousseau, 1830s
“Northeaster” — Winslow Homer, 1898
“Les Chênes d'Apremont” — Théodore Rousseau, 1852
“Le Printemps” — Théodore Rousseau, 1852
“The Forest of Fontainebleau: Morning” — Théodore Rousseau, 1850
“Fishing Boats, Key West” — Winslow Homer, 1903
“Daphnis and Chloé” — François-Louis Français, 1872
“The Harvest” — Charles-François Daubigny, 1851
“The Woman with a Pearl” — Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, 1869
“L'allée des châtaigniers” — Théodore Rousseau, 1837
“Honoré Daumier” — Charles-François Daubigny, 1873
“The Barges” — Charles-François Daubigny, 1865
“Boats on the Oise” — Charles-François Daubigny, 1865
“The Ford” — Constant Troyon, 1852
“View of Mont Blanc, Seen from La Faucille” — Théodore Rousseau, 1865
“Landscape with a pond” — Charles-François Daubigny, 1861
“Spring Landscape (1862)” — Charles-François Daubigny, 1862
“Meadow with Blossoming Fruit Tree” — Charles-François Daubigny, 1869
“The Park at Saint-Cloud” — Charles-François Daubigny, 1865
“The old lady with geese” — Nicolae Grigorescu, 1868
“Grandcamp at low tide” — Léon Germain Pelouse, 1884
“Bătrână cârpind” — Nicolae Grigorescu, 1867
“The Mocan” — Nicolae Grigorescu, 1867
“Autoportret” — Nicolae Grigorescu, 1868
“Cows Crossing a Ford” — Jules Dupré, 1836
“Pool Beneath Trees” — Charles-François Daubigny, 1850