This is the name given to a community of mid-19th-century painters who worked in and around the village of Barbizon in the forest of Fontainebleau, south-east of Paris. The artists associated with thi [..]

A group of naturalist landscape painters who worked in the vicinity of Barbizon, a village on the outskirts of the Forest of Fontainebleu, southeast of Paris, in the 1840s and 1850s. Théodore Rousseau [..]

a group of 19th-century French painters, named after the village that was their base. Their landscapes and images of peasant life were painted outdoors (en plein air), directly from nature. Artists in [..]

A group of French naturalist painters, their approach to painting, beginning in the 1830s, opened the door to Plein-Air Painting, Impressionism, and Social Realism. Barbizon School painters were based [..]

painting, prints, works on paper. The Barbizon School included a group of French painters who believed in realism in art as opposed to the Romantic Movement during the mid-19th century.

This was a movement where the artist would do a more realistic representation of the landscapes around. A group of French painters from the 19th century took some of their influence from a Dutch style [..]

There is a village 40 miles south-west of Paris called Barbizon. The village set the scene for some Parisian artists who wanted to get a break from Paris go out into the country side with their easels [..]