barbizon

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Definition of barbizon in English English dictionary

{i} village in northern France

A French school of the middle of the 19th century centering in the village of Barbizon near the forest of Fontainebleau

It is exemplified, esp

in landscapes, by Corot, Rousseau, Daubigny, Jules Dupré, and Diaz

Its members went straight to nature in disregard of academic tradition, treating their subjects faithfully and with poetic feeling for color, light, and atmosphere

Associated with them are certain painters of animals, as Troyon and Jaque, and of peasant life, as Millet and Jules Breton

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Barbizon School

19th century group of French landscape painters who worked chiefly in the village of Barbizon (northern France)

Barbizon school

Group of 19th-century French landscape painters. They were part of a larger European movement toward naturalism that made a significant contribution to realism in French landscape painting. Led by Theodore Rousseau and Jean-François Millet, they attracted a large following of painters who came to live at Barbizon, a village near Paris; most notable of this group were Charles-François Daubigny, Narcisse-Virgile Díaz de la Peña, Jules Dupré, Charles-Émile Jacque, and Constant Troyon. Each had his own style, but all emphasized painting out-of-doors directly from nature, using a limited palette, and creating atmosphere or mood in their landscapes