Barbizon School

Notice the woodland textures, open skies and everyday rural work. Around Barbizon and the Forest of Fontainebleau, artists made landscape a subject worth sustained attention in its own right. Outdoor studies and studio painting worked together; Daubigny’s river scenes and support for younger painters connect this varied circle with Impressionism. Follow how a path, river or stand of trees gives structure to a seemingly ordinary view. These painters differed in technique and subject, and the Barbizon label was applied after their circle had developed. Their attention to local landscape offered an important precedent for the Impressionists, without making every Barbizon work an outdoor sketch. Connected places: Barbizon · Forest of Fontainebleau · Auvers-sur-Oise.

• Education of CupidNarcisse Virgile Diaz de la Peña, c. 1859
• Pond in the WoodsNarcisse Virgile Diaz de la Peña, 1862
• The MarshConstant Troyon, 1840
• The Road to MarketConstant Troyon, 1858–59
• Young WomanJean François Millet, 1844–45
• The SheepshearersJean François Millet, c. 1857–61
• Peasants Bringing Home a Calf Born in the FieldsJean François Millet, 1864
• The Keeper of the FlockJean François Millet, 1871–74
• River BoatCharles François Daubigny, c. 1860
• The MarshCharles François Daubigny, 1871
• House of Mère BazotCharles François Daubigny, 1874
• Woman Feeding ChickensJean François Millet, 1846-48
• Three Little GirlsNarcisse Virgile Diaz de la Peña, c. 1870
• In the AuvergneJean François Millet, c. 1866–69
• The WoodchopperJean François Millet, c. 1858–66
• The Little ShepherdessJean François Millet, 1868–72
• In the Forest of FontainbleauThéodore Rousseau, c. 1850
• A River Landscape with StorksCharles François Daubigny, 1864
• Woman with a RakeJean François Millet, probably 1856–57
• Haystacks: AutumnJean François Millet, ca. 1874
• LandscapeNarcisse Virgile Diaz de la Peña, c. 1860
• The Fisherman (Le Pêcheur)Théodore Rousseau, c. 1840–45
• A Meadow Bordered by TreesThéodore Rousseau, ca. 1845–60
• The Forest in Winter at SunsetThéodore Rousseau, ca. 1846–67