Barbizon School Paintings

Biography

A Bit of Roman AqueductGeorge Inness Gallery Price: $605.00 Our Price:	A Path among the RocksTheodore Rousseau Gallery Price: $605.00 Our Price:	A River LandscapeTheodore Rousseau Gallery Price: $605.00 Our Price:
A Rocky LandscapeTheodore Rousseau Gallery Price: $605.00 Our Price:	A Village in a ValleyTheodore Rousseau Gallery Price: $605.00 Our Price:	Apple BlossomsCharles Daubigny Gallery Price: $605.00 Our Price:
Autumn MeadowsGeorge Inness Gallery Price: $605.00 Our Price:	Autumn OaksGeorge Inness Gallery Price: $605.00 Our Price:	Banks of the SeineCharles Daubigny Gallery Price: $605.00 Our Price:
Beach at Low TideCharles Daubigny Gallery Price: $605.00 Our Price:	Boats on the Seacoast at EtaplesCharles Daubigny Gallery Price: $605.00 Our Price:	Delaware Water GapGeorge Inness Gallery Price: $605.00 Our Price:
Early Morning, Tarpon SpringsGeorge Inness Gallery Price: $605.00 Our Price:	Farm at Kerity, BrittanyCharles Daubigny Gallery Price: $605.00 Our Price:	HarvestCharles Daubigny Gallery Price: $605.00 Our Price:
Home at MontclairGeorge Inness Gallery Price: $605.00 Our Price:	Kearsarge VillageGeorge Inness Gallery Price: $605.00 Our Price:	LandscapeTheodore Rousseau Gallery Price: $605.00 Our Price:
Landscape on the River OiseCharles Daubigny Gallery Price: $605.00 Our Price:	Landscape with a Sunlit StreamCharles Daubigny Gallery Price: $605.00 Our Price:	Le TonnelierCharles Daubigny Gallery Price: $605.00 Our Price:
Leashed HoundsConstant Troyon Gallery Price: $605.00 Our Price:	Les bord de l'OiseCharles Daubigny Gallery Price: $605.00 Our Price:	MillCharles Daubigny Gallery Price: $605.00 Our Price:
October NoonGeorge Inness Gallery Price: $605.00 Our Price:	On the Banks of the OiseCharles Daubigny Gallery Price: $605.00 Our Price:	On the Way to MarketConstant Troyon Gallery Price: $605.00 Our Price:
Peace and PlentyGeorge Inness Gallery Price: $605.00 Our Price:	PlowingConstant Troyon Gallery Price: $605.00 Our Price:	River SceneTheodore Rousseau Gallery Price: $605.00 Our Price:
SeascapeCharles Daubigny Gallery Price: $605.00 Our Price:	Short Cut, Watchung Station, New JerseyGeorge Inness Gallery Price: $605.00 Our Price:	Spring Blossoms, Montclair, New JerseyGeorge Inness Gallery Price: $605.00 Our Price:
SunriseGeorge Inness Gallery Price: $605.00 Our Price:	Sunset in the AuvergneTheodore Rousseau Gallery Price: $605.00 Our Price:	The Delaware Water GapGeorge Inness Gallery Price: $605.00 Our Price:
The Dunes at CamiersCharles Daubigny Gallery Price: $605.00 Our Price:	The Edge of the Woods at Monts-Girard, Fontainebleau ForestTheodore Rousseau Gallery Price: $605.00 Our Price:	The Lackaanna ValleyGeorge Inness Gallery Price: $605.00 Our Price:
The Ponds of GylieuCharles Daubigny Gallery Price: $605.00 Our Price:	The Valley of Saint-VincentTheodore Rousseau Gallery Price: $605.00 Our Price:	View at Auvers-sur-OiseCharles Daubigny Gallery Price: $605.00 Our Price:

Barbizon School Paintings

The Barbizon School was a group of painters prominent from 1830-1870. Named after the village of Barbizon, France, the painters would often find themselves gathering here, where they were able to easily draw their inspiration from the beautiful countryside.

Although Romanticism was dominating art at the time, The Barbizon School was a movement towards realism.

In 1824, painter John Constable’s work was exhibited at the Salon de Paris. His rural scenes would become the influence for a great many of the younger artists of the time. It would move them to abandon formalism and to draw their inspiration from nature, so that nature filled their works and became the subject rather than the background.

It was during the Revolutions of 1948 that many of those influenced by Constable would make their way to Barbizon, where they would come together to continue their work.

A leader in the movement, Theodore Rousseau would continue to build interest in the Barbizon style. In an era of romanticism, they would move society as a whole to a better understanding and appreciation of the realism movement and the Impressionist Landscape paintings that would follow.

Jean-Francis Millet would add an additional element to the Barbizon School influence, by extending the idea of nature as subject, to include figures that were mostly peasants and scenes of peasant life at the time.

In his 1857 painting, “The Gleaners”, he captures the essence of the peasant way of life, portraying three women, busy at work in the fields. Gleaners are the poor who would gather the leftovers of the harvest after the rich property owners had taken their fill. There is no drama in this painting, simply the subjects, and for once, the rich elite and their laborers are moved to the background. This was one of the first times that the focus was taken off the rich and prominent and those who were at the bottom rung of the social ladder placed in the forefront. In addition to their bent form, Millet also chose to let the women remain faceless, thus emphasizing their position in society.

Trained by Millet, William Morris Hunt was the first American known to work in the Barbizon style. Hunt would come to be the leading painter of mid-19th century Boston, and the William Morris Hunt Library of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts has been named in his honor.

Much like the artists of the Ashcan School movement painting the dreary scenes of life in New York City in the early 20th century, the earlier Barbizon painters glorified the hard work and hard lives of their subjects and were devoted to depicting the working class of their time.

Influential in the development of the Impressionist movement, The Barbizon School would reach its peak in 1870.