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José Weiss
Barbizon School landscape by Jose Weiss
circa 1890

About the Item

The French born landscape artist Joseph Vincent Nicholas Francis Weiss was born in Paris in 1859, of British parents. Moving to England in the early 1890's, it is noted Weiss participated in plein air painting while in the region of the South Downs until 1900. There in Sussex and other southern counties, Weiss was strongly influenced by the Barbizon school in France. The Barbizon School of painting figures most prominently in art history while taking its origin from the forest woodlands in and around the Forest of Fountainbleau in France. Artists were previously trained in the Neoclassical tradition in an attempt to pay homage to those artists of the Renaissance and of classical antiquity. As such, prior examples could be determined by the works of Nicolas Poussin and Claude Lorrain. Then in 1816, the Prix de Rome was introduced by the French Academy in a category known as "paysage historique" (or historical landscape painting). As many painters had settled in Italy at the time to paint openly and with grander colors, the prize was highly sought after - being awarded every four years while allowing the winner to live and work at the Villa Medici in Rome. During this time, many artists continued to the Louvre to study 17th century Dutch and Flemish landscapes - a theme often seen in the Netherlands. Painters and sculptors soon returned to Paris to continue their new force, working from Nature. Both the royal parks of Versailles and Saint-Cloud were popular haunts but it was the Forest of Fountainbleau which become the most popular. One of its villages was named Barbizon and it soon become the center of art. Obsessed by the sheer beauty of the forest and its original 62,000 virgin acres, the Barbizon painters paid homage to the "landscape of the land" - with its ancient gnarled trees, sharpened rock formations, fields and streams, meadows and marshes and never ending heath. Theodore Rousseau and Narcisse Diaz de la Pena, Millet , Camille Corot, Charles and Francois Daubigny were all members of the French school. Works by Weiss were shown at the Expositions de Paris from 1894 through 1914 where he received an honorable mention in 1899. Exhibiting at the Royal Academy, his works may be found in museums and private collections. In "Barbizon School Landscape" (also "River Arun, Sussex"), Weiss has clearly defined a natural setting in pastoral England at the turn of the century through deep and rich greens. Although the oil is set in England, statuesque trees stand as guardians to the forest while a local group of cattle graze peacefully to the right of center. The river Arun, Sussex finds it source from a series of small streams in the St. Leonard's forest area to the east of Horsham. Flowing through Arundel and past the castle, the Arun flows into the English Channel at Littlehampton. The river runs for approximately 25 miles from its source to the sea. The Arun was recorded as the "Trisantonis" in Ptolemy's "Geograpahy" as early as 150 AD. It is noted "Trisantonis" may be an ancient word for "the trespasser" (indicating the river's tendency to flood land near the river). The area today pays homage to its rural beauty.

Creator:
José Weiss (1859-1919, British)
Creation Year:
circa 1890
Dimensions:
Height: 30 in (76.2 cm)Width: 40 in (101.6 cm)
Period:
19th Century
Condition:
Very Good Condition.
Gallery Location:
Dallas, TX
Reference Number:
Seller: 6202-0101stDibs: G13123129890

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