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Magnificent oil on canvas, anonymous, very beautiful hand, made in the prestigious Barbizon school.
We can make out a mother and her child walking on a path bordered by long and tall bare trees, with cut branches, hastening to reach their home under a gray and cloudy sky presaging rain.
The frame is from the Louis Philippe period and completely restored with gold leaf.
Period: 19th century
Dimensions: H:87 x W:74.5cm
It was in Barbizon, a small village on the edge of the forest of Fontainebleau, that an essentially new art in France would flourish in the 19th century: Landscape.
Some of the most important characteristics of the Barbizon school of painters are its tonal qualities, its color, its loose brushwork and its softness of form.
The Barbizon style retains a realistic style, but with a slightly romantic intonation, characterized by their almost exclusive specialization in landscape and their direct study of nature.
This will influence the rest of 19th century French painting, especially Impressionism. Artists will usually take their notes outside to complete their final work in their studies.
They renounced the picturesque image of country life and began to analyze nature and its representation with a critical eye. This observation of the natural produces sentimental effects on the soul of the painter, so that his landscapes acquire a rather sensitive dramatic quality.
Instead of images with historical, religious or mythological themes required by the classical canon, representatives of the Barbizon school painted landscapes of various formats.
Characteristic of the school was the turn towards a realistic representation of nature in contrast to the classical composition of the idealistic landscape. This new vision of the intimate landscape, which already led to Impressionism, became the hallmark of the group of artists brought together.
It was the painters of Barbizon, however, resolutely turned towards nature and reality, who definitively freed the landscape from paralyzing academic conventions and gave it an unprecedented impetus in French art.
Ref: 2OWL18P7Q7
Condition | As new |
Style | Other style (Landscape Paintings of Other style Style) |
Period | 19th century (Landscape Paintings 19th century) |
Length (cm) | 74,5 |
Height (cm) | 87 |
Materials | Oil on canvas |
Shipping Time | Ready to ship in 4-7 Business Days |
Location | 94000, Créteil, France |
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