Barbizon School
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The Barbizon School is the name given to oil painters and others who were part of an art movement advancing Realism in art, which arose in the context of the dominant Romantic Movement of the time. Ro
Corot, Road by the Water, c. 1865–70, oil on canvas. Clark Art Institute
Charles-François Daubigny, The Pond at Gylieu, 1853
Théodore Rousseau, Becquigny, Somme, c. 1857
The Gleaners, Jean-François Millet, 1857. Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Jean-François Millet
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Jean-François Millet was a French painter and one of the founders of the Barbizon school in rural France. Millet is noted for his paintings of peasant farmers and can be categorized as part of the Rea
Barbizon School
…Théodore Rousseau, Charles-François Daubigny, Jules Dupré, Édouard Manet, Edgar Degas, Constant Troyon, Charles Jacque, and Narcisse Virgilio Díaz. Jean-François Millet lived in Barbizon from 1849, but his interest in figures with a landscape backdrop sets him rather apart from the others. Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot…
Portrait by Nadar, c. 1856–1858
The Sheepfold. In this painting by Millet, the waning Moon throws a mysterious light across the plain between the villages of Barbizon and Chailly. The Walters Art Museum.
Woman Baking Bread, 1854. Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo.
Harvesters Resting (Ruth and Boaz), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (1850–1853)