Barbizon - France
Southeast of Paris on the edge of Fontainebleau Forest, gave its name to the Barbizon school of painters.
Jean-Francois Millet, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot and Théodore Rousseau (not to be confused with Henri \"Le Douanier\"
Rousseau, a post-Impressionist) were the nucleus of an artistic movement that lasted from about 1830 to 1860, variously
known as the En Plein Air, Barbizon and 1830 School. In the village of Barbizon, they revived the art of landscape
painting, paving the way for the Impressionists who arrived in the forest 30 years later
There are fine stone villages all around Fontainebleau Forest, but Barbizon will ever be associated with the school of
painters for a simple reason: Along its one narrow Grande Rue were several inns that catered to starving artists. At the
Auberge Ganne, run by Francois Ganne and his formidable wife, Edmée, and then at the nearby Hotel Siron, a painter
could get a hearty dinner, dormitory bed and sack lunch to take into the woods for a paltry sum, and if he couldn't pay,
credit was readily extended.
Barbizon - Francia
Durante las revoluciones burguesas de 1848, un grupo de artistas comenzó a reunirse en el pueblo de Barbizon para
seguir las ideas sobre la pintura y el naturalismo.
Los integrantes fundadores de la escuela de Barbizon fueron Théodore Rousseau, Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, Jean-
François Millet y Charles-François Daubigny. Otros miembros fueron Jules Dupré, Narcisso Virgilio Díaz de la Peña, Albert
Charpin, Henri Harpignies, Charles Olivier de Penne, Félix Ziem, Alexandre DeFaux, Constant Troyon y Jules Jacques
Veyrassat.
Mantienen un estilo realista, pero de entonación ligeramente romántica, que se caracteriza por su especialización casi
en exclusiva en el paisaje y su estudio directo del natural. Renunciaron a la estampa pintoresca de la vida campestre y se
lanzaron a analizar de un modo casi escrupuloso la Naturaleza. Uno de ellos, Millet, fue más allá de la idea original,
incluyendo figuras en sus paisajes, como estampas de la vida campesina y su trabajo en el campo. Tan unidos a dicho
lugar estuvieron estos pintores que Rousseau (1867) y Millet (1875) murieron en Barbizon.

References: France Nature Studies by Susan Studies
Photography: Internet
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