Eugene Galien-Laloue

Barbizon landscape "Farmyard"

A marsh landscape in the style of Max Weyl. Oil on board measures 12 3/4 x 23 5/8; frame dimensions measure 16 1/4 x 27 x 1 1/4. Unsigned. Housed in a gold-to...

Paul Désiré Trouillebert (1829-1900) Landscape from Barbizon with characters Oil on canvas signed low right Old original sculpted wood frame gilded with leaves Size canvas : 33 X 41 cm Size frame : 43 X 51 cm Paul Désiré Trouillebert (1829-1900) Paul Désiré Trouillebert (1829 in Paris, France – 28 June 1900 in Paris, France) was a famous French Barbizon School painter in the mid-nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries. Trouillebert is considered a portraitist, a genre and landscape painter from the French Barbizon School. He was a student of Ernest Hébert...

This 19th-century oil painting by French artist Léon Adolphe Belly (1827-1877) depicts a woodland view with a pond and women washing clothes. It’s a gentle portrayal and a far stretch from his grander ‘orientalist’ paintings. With relentless dedication, Belly undertook numerous exhausting missions to the expansive plains and claustrophobic heat of 19th-century North Africa where travel was debilitating, particularly for a dapper Frenchman, built for the playground of Paris. He did so in search of the ‘orient’, a theme in French Academic art made popular by painters such as Eugène Delacroix and Jean-Léon Gérôme. Belly’s orientalist works combine a rich tapestry of colour and exquisite details. Vast horizons under a crisp heat, fully-laden camels resting under boughs, women gathering water from a river. These were the masterpieces which sang to the hanging committee of the illustrious Paris Salon. They lapped it up and his career was secured. Yet, when returning from his various travels, his work took on a different atmosphere. Away from the scorching banks of the Nile, he turned to the rich and varied topography of Fontainebleau, near Paris. These magical woods have inspired numerous artists over the years including painter Théodore Rousseau (1812-1867) who, along with several of his contemporaries, became the first to truly embrace painting entirely outdoors. Belly’s work at Fontainebleau is quieter and less flamboyant. It lacks the attention-seeking bravura of his large desert scenes. At the Salon, hundreds of artists competed for the gaze of the bourgeois patron. While, when at home, Belly seemed to paint what he loved - for himself more than anyone. Here, in this piece from circa 1870, a woman dressed in a lilac top...

Oil on canvas

Oil on canvas

Oil on canvas