Barbizon School Art

An atmospheric twilight scene by Alessandro Altamura, depicting a tranquil river teeming with activity, likely set near the forest landscape of Fontainebleau in France. The compositi...

ntique 19th Century oil painting on stretched canvas of a traditional Barbizon riverscape scene. This atmospheric French painting is rich in tonal depth with the trees juxtaposed on...

Claudia Bret-Charbonnier. French ( b.1863 - d.1951 ). Une Péniche Chargée De Barriques De Vin Sur Le Canal Du Midi. (A Barge Loaded With Barrels Of Wine On The Canal Du Midi). Oil On...

The Woodland Stream French Barbican artist, late 19th century/ early 20th century indistinctly signed lower corner, oil painting on board, unframed board: 24 x 29 inches Provenance: ...

Early 20th Century French Barbizon School of a lake and cottage by G Jouyet. The painting is signed bottom left and there is a birthday inscription, signature and title to the back o...

➡️ LandscapeThe River from Rousseau⬅️ ⏩It is signed R Rousseau.⏪ ⭐Medium:⭐ Oil on canvas ⭐Technique: ⭐Impasto painting with expressive brushwork. ⭐Size:⭐47,5x31.5 cm / 18.5x1...

Dimensions with frame: 22 x 29,5 x 3,5 cm Signed "N. Diaz" in the lower left corner. A richly atmospheric 19th century Romantic landscape painting depicting an intimate woodland clearing animated by delicate figures and fluttering white doves. The composition unfolds beneath a dense canopy of trees, where dramatic brushwork and layered impasto create a sense of movement, mystery, and depth. At the center of the scene, small elegantly dressed figures appear gathered near the water’s edge, possibly engaged in a poetic or symbolic moment. The surrounding birds in flight add dynamism and luminosity, their pale forms contrasting beautifully against the deep greens, earthy browns, and golden highlights of the forest. The artist employs expressive, almost impressionistic brushstrokes, giving the foliage a vibrant, textural quality. Light filters through the trees, illuminating portions of the composition while leaving other areas in shadow, enhancing the romantic and slightly theatrical mood. Both mysterious and lyrical, this work evokes themes of nature, contemplation, and transcendence. It would make a compelling addition to a refined interior, particularly for collectors drawn to moody landscapes and narrative European painting of the 19th century. A compelling and atmospheric antique oil painting that beautifully captures the poetry of nature and the elegance of human presence within it. 19th century landscape painting, Romantic forest painting, antique woodland scene, European Romantic art, antique oil on canvas, atmospheric landscape artwork, forest clearing painting, figures in landscape, doves in painting, impressionistic brushwork, Continental school painting...

An oil on panel idyllic landscape by Boggio. The painting is signed bottom left. An idealised lakeside landscape view with poplar trees in the style of the Barbizon school.

Henri Biva (1848-1929) "Still Life at Chinese Vase," large watercolor on paper applied to board signed lower right. Henri Biva (Paris, January 23, 1848 - Paris, February 2, 1929) ...

An charming 19th century dog painting depicting a mother dogue and her exuberant topsy turvy pups by the farmhouse barns or cowsheds , with a young child given them a fuss! Dating from ca 1860-70, the oil on canvas is unsigned, but bears on the verso a rather special stamp from colour and artists supplies merchant Paul Durand-Ruel (1831-1922). Paul Durand-Ruel is known as the legendary art dealer who launched, almost single handedly, the Impressionist movement. He represented Monet, Pissarro, Sisley, Renoir in his Paris, London and New York Galleries. Like his father Jean Marie Durand, Durand Ruel had started as both a merchant of art supplies, and dealer. Often, these two activities overlapped, as he would supply cash strapped artists who left paintings as security. Paul Durand Ruel was one of the first to discover Barbizon artist...

An oil on panel view of a winter snow scene by Boggio. The painting is signed bottom right. A charming view of a snow scene, a river running by a bank heavy with snow.

Oil on canvas painting by Narcisse Virgilio Díaz de la Peña (1807–1876), signed low left, a central figure of the Barbizon School. The painting depicts a typical Fontainebleau forest...

A wonderful view of a river landscape with a rustic cottage and pollarded trees by Henri Sieurac. It isa rare, early and very fresh landscape by this Parisian artist which may well have been painted in the countryside around Barbizon, near the river Loing. Henry Sieurac had studied with his father, François Joseph Sieurac , and of Paul Delaroche...

Theodore LEVIGNE Oil on Canvas Picture Size: 20 x 24" (51 x 61cm) Outside Frame Size: 27 x 31" (67 x 77cm) Born in 1848 and died in 1912 in Lyon, France Painter of figures, portrait...

Maurice Levis French (1860 - 1940) Picture size: 15 x 23 inch (38 x 58 cm) Frame size: 27 x 35 inch (69 x 89 cm) Antique oil painting Signed and titled Born in Paris on 11 November...

An oil on panel idyllic landscape by Boggio. The painting is signed bottom right. An idealised lakeside landscape view of a shady glen in the style of the Barbizon school.

Oil on canvas by Paul-Desire TROUILLEBERT (1831-1900), France, 2nd part of the 19th C. Saint-Martin-de-Tours church in Sartouville near Paris. With frame: 58.5x51 cm - 25.2x22 inches...

An atmospheric sunset after the rain. The light reflected on the still-wet street is creating the most beautifully shimmering light. Two village women carrying baskets are chatting, ...

John Appleton Brown Snowy Afternoon Signed lower right Oil on canvas 18 x 24 inches Starting in 1866, John Appleton Brown trained at the Louvre in Paris under the guidance of Jean-...

HENRI JOSEPH HARPIGNIES(1819–1916) Landscape at Twilight Oil painting on canvasImage Size: 24.6”x 20.6”Signed in oil, lower left Verso: Gallery label reading “The Lenz Gallery –Mi...

Mystery Artist, likely French Untitled, c. 1876 Oil on canvas 18 1/2 x 11 1/4 in. Framed: 22 x 14 3/4 x 1 in. Signed and dated lower right

This late 19th-century oil on canvas by Léon Richet (1843-1907) captures a quiet stretch of water in the Forest of Fontainebleau - a place the artist knew with intimate devotion. It ...

Godefroy de Hagemann (1820-1877) was a member of the Hanover dynasty, of German Princes. His full name was Godefroy Auguste Christian Volfgann baron de Hagemann, or Godefroy de Hagem...

Rooster and Hens in the Barnyard William Baptiste Baird (U.S./France 1847-1917) Oil on panel Signed lower right "W. Baird" 12 1/4 x 9 inches A stunning example of William Baptiste...

An oil on panel view of a winter snow scene by Boggio. The painting is signed bottom right. A charming view of a snow scene, a river running by a stile heavy with snow.

Louis Aimé Japy 1840 - 1916 Oil painting on canvas Fully signed Picture Size: 21.25 x 28.25" (54 x 72cm) Outside Frame Size: 28.25 x 35.25" (72 x 89cm) Excellent age appropriate con...

Théodore Rousseau (French, 1812-1867) Personnages sur un sentier escarpé au coucher de soleil, 1845-50 Oil on paper laid on canvas Canvas: 12 x 9.75 inches (30.5 x 24.8 cm) Frame: 18...

Henri Harpignies (1819-1916) A Barrier on the hedge, study Signed lower left, annotation "branches séchées sur la barrière" (dried branches on the fence) on the upper right Charcoal...

Work on canvas board Dimension with frame : 34 x 42 x 5 cm This atmospheric oil painting on cardboard unsigned and dating from the late 19th to early 20th century, depicts a tranqu...

Cows at the watering place. This exquisite and beautiful painting represents a rural scene on a beautiful summer day. The influence of the Barbizon school is clearly visible. This p...

Late 19th Century French Barbizon School oil on wood panel of poplar trees in a landscape by Richard. The painting is signed bottom left. The painting is on a quality chamfered panel. A very charming, almost impressionist, rendition of a line of iconic French trees in a landscape. Before them an earth drive has been ploughed up by the wheels of passing carts and horses. Richard has created a wonderful perspective that draws us in to the painting and he has created a contrast between the strong greens of the trees and fields against the whites and blues of the sky. The painting is reminiscent of the works of Monet from the 1890s. to whom the poplar trees were a continuing inspiration. The Barbizon school of painters was part of an art movement towards Realism in art, which arose in the context of the dominant Romantic Movement of the time. The Barbizon school was active roughly from 1830 through 1870. It takes its name from the village of Barbizon, France, on the edge of the Forest of Fontainebleau, where many of the artists gathered. Most of their works were landscape paintings, but several of them also painted landscapes with farmworkers, and genre scenes of village life. Some of the most prominent features of this school are its tonal qualities, colour, loose brushwork, and softness of form. The leaders of the Barbizon school were: Théodore Rousseau, Charles-François Daubigny, Jules Dupré, Constant Troyon, Charles Jacque, and Narcisse Virgilio Díaz. Jean-François Millet lived in Barbizon from 1849, but his interest in figures with a landscape backdrop sets him rather apart from the others. Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot was the earliest on the scene, first painting in the forest in 1829, but his work has a poetic and literary quality which sets him somewhat apart. Other artists associated with the school, often pupils of the main group, include: Henri Harpignies, Albert Charpin, François-Louis Français and Émile van Marcke. In 1824 the Salon de Paris exhibited works of John Constable, an English painter. His rural scenes influenced some of the younger artists of the time, moving them to abandon formalism and to draw inspiration directly from nature. Natural scenes became the subjects of their paintings rather than mere backdrops to dramatic events. During the Revolutions of 1848 artists gathered at Barbizon to follow Constable's ideas, making nature the subject of their paintings. The French landscape became a major theme of the Barbizon painters. Millet extended the idea from landscape to figures — peasant figures, scenes of peasant life, and work in the fields. In The Gleaners (1857), for example, Millet portrays three peasant women working at the harvest. Gleaners are poor people who are permitted to gather the remains after the owners of the field complete the main harvest. The owners (portrayed as wealthy) and their laborers are seen in the back of the painting. Millet shifted the focus and the subject matter from the rich and prominent to those at the bottom of the social ladders. To emphasize their anonymity and marginalized position, he hid their faces. The women's bowed bodies represent their everyday hard work. In the spring of 1829, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot came to Barbizon to paint in the Forest of Fontainebleau, he had first painted in the forest at Chailly in 1822. He returned to Barbizon in the autumn of 1830 and in the summer of 1831, where he made drawings and oil studies, from which he made a painting intended for the Salon of 1830; "View of the Forest of Fontainebleau'" (now in the National Gallery in Washington) and, for the salon of 1831, another "View of the Forest of Fontainebleau"'. While there he met the members of the Barbizon school: Théodore Rousseau, Paul Huet, Constant Troyon, Jean-François Millet, and the young Charles-François Daubigny. During the late 1860s, the Barbizon painters attracted the attention of a younger generation of French artists studying in Paris. Several of those artists visited Fontainebleau Forest to paint the landscape, including Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley and Frédéric Bazille. In the 1870s those artists, among others, developed the art movement called Impressionism and practiced 'plein air' painting. In contrast, the main members of the school made drawings and sketches on the spot, but painted back in their studios. The Post-Impressionist painter Vincent Van Gogh studied and copied several of the Barbizon painters as well, including 21 copies of paintings by Millet. He copied Millet more than any other artist. He also did three paintings in Daubigny's Garden. The Barbizon painters also had a profound impact on landscape painting in the United States. This included the development of the American Barbizon school by William Morris Hunt. Several artists who were also in, or contemporary to, the Hudson River School studied Barbizon paintings for their loose brushwork and emotional impact. A notable example is George Inness, who sought to emulate the works of Rousseau. Paintings from the Barbizon school also influenced landscape painting in California. The artist Percy Gray...

Our 19th Century painting of a mountain dwelling, bathed in soft light light is a fresh and relevant as if it had been created yesterday. Painted certainly in plein air on the motif,...

Karl Pierre DAUBIGNY With price reaching upwards of $36 000 this is opportunity to purchase a piece by an artist who was at the forefront of the impressionist movement at a price that has great potential investment. It has excellent provenance coming from the continent via Christies in the 1980s and is in many important museums from the Musée d’Orsay, Paris to the Rijksmuseum, The Hague. Oil on panel Panel size: 11 x 21" (28 x 54cm) Outside frame size: (48 x 74cm) Born on 19 June 1846 in Paris and died on 25 May 1886 Painter of animals, landscapes, marines in both oil and watercolours Karl Pierre Daubigny was the son of, Charles Francois Daubigny, one of the original eight Barbizon painters and one of the leading landscapists of his time. Taught by his father, who greatly influenced him, Karl Daubigny travelled the French countryside painting...

Spanish Impressionist River Landscape with Bridge and Figure, c.1925 Artist: Unknown Period: c.1925 Style: Spanish School, Impressionist / Barbizon-inspired landscape Medium: Oil on...

Signed center right N Diaz. All of our works are covered by our own guarantee of authenticity which covers the work for its lifetime of ownership with the purc...

➡️ Landscape the pond⬅️ ⏩It is signed Moniéry⏪ Rouen on the banks of the Seine ⭐Medium:⭐ Oil on canvas ⭐Technique: ⭐Impasto painting with expressive brushwork. ⭐Size:⭐46x55cm / ...

Woman in a Field (title unknown) Oil on canvas, 1894 Signed and dated 1894, lower right corner Unframed A major exhibition work by this American Expatriate painter. Further research ...

On offer is a moody glimpse of rural 19th-century France typical of the Barbizon School. Against a backdrop of a wintery pale golden sky, two men are fishing from the rocks above a r...

Lithograph on Chine appliqué, 9 1/4 x 8 1/8 inches (235 x 206 mm), full margins. First state (of 4). Extremely minor uniform age tone, otherwise in good condition. A superb, richly-inked impression. [Delteil 61.1] ______ At an early age Delacroix became a lover of music and literature and had been drawing from the time he entered school.  He expected painting would be a hobby, but on the death of his father he found he had to make his own way in life.  In 1817 he entered the studio of Pierre-Narcisse Guerin; amongst his fellow pupils was Gericault.  His first exhibited work was Dante and Virgil...

Jean Alexandre DEFAUX (1826-1900) Lake landscape with characters Oil on canvas signed low right Frames by Gault (Paris) Size canvas : 32 X 52 cm - Size frame : 52 X 72 cm Jean Alexa...

Le Chene des Roches (Oak tree growing among Rocks) Etching, 1861 Signed in the plate lower right (see photo) Printed by Delatre, Paris, on chine applique Final state iii/III, as pub...

This superb oil on canvas painting was designed by Félix Eugène Bellenot (1892 - 1963). This vibrant and passionate composition represents the port of Sainte Maxime in France within ...

Signed figures in riverscape oil on canvas by French Barbizon painter Leon Augustin Lhermitte. The piece depicts a rural landscape with washerwomen in traditional Breton clothing was...

René Charles Edmond His (1877-1960) Lanscape by the Pond Oil on canvas signed low left Old frame gilded with leaves Size canvas : 51 X 65 cm Size frame : 67 X 81 cm René Charles ...

Narcisse Virgile Diaz de la Pena (1808-1876), "Elegant Figures in a Park." Oil on wood signed on the back Diaz de la Pena. We thank Michel Rodrigue for confirming the attribution of...

Eugene Petit 1839 - 1886 Signed E. Petit bottom right Oil on canvas Painting Size: 18 x 21 3/4" (46 x 56cm) Outside Frame Size: 25 x 28 3/4" (63 x 73cm) Free Shipping He was born ...

A cabinet-size, grisaille oil on panel landscape showing a young Bretonne cowherd attempting to direct a reluctant Guernsey cow, which appears determined on a different direction. Unsigned and with label verso bearing artist's name and dates. Displayed in a burl walnut frame. Framed dimensions: 10 x .75 x 14.25 Inches This work is a fully realized study for the foreground compositional element in Dupré's 1882 oil painting, "In Pasture", held in the permanent collection of the Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, St. Louis, (see photo, above). In 1886, this large work was purchased by member subscription for the museum's permanent collection. Julien Dupré first exhibited at the 1876 Paris Salon and, thereafter, almost continuously until his death in 1910. Over the course of a long and distinguished career, he was the recipient of numerous prizes, medals and juried awards including a gold medal at the Paris Fair of 1889. In 1992, he was invested as a companion of the Legion of Honor for his services to art. Julien Dupré was one of the leading exponents of the second generation of Realist painters. This group included Barbizon artists and, also, more committed realists such as Leon Lhermitte and Jules Bastien...

An atmospheric landscape in the last glow of the evening sun by a rare 19th Century master , Auguste Delâtre. Delâtre (1822-1902) was a pioneering pri...

How often do 9 or 10-year-olds so connect with something that they know immediately it will be their lifelong calling? Belgian-born artist Jules G. Bahieu (1860-1895) started his tra...

The subdued palette of the subject trees sets them against a background of palest yellow into amber for a striking effect reminiscent of dawn. The artist, Eduard Caret, was born in P...

This beautiful painting is in perfect condition, never touched. It has an original period giltwood frame (gold leaf)

Pristine condition.

Charles Francis De Klyn was born in Westchester County, New York, in 1865. A landscape, marine, portrait and figure painter, De Klyn studied in New York and Paris from 1886 to 1891, then taught at the Cleveland Art Club and the Cleveland School of Art. In 1893, he was one of the founders of the Cleveland Brush and Palette Club, and he exhibited at the National Academy of Design in 1894 and 1895. He was also a member of the Society of Western Artists. "A Fontainebleu" by Charles Francis De Klyn is a beautifully rendered Barbizon oil...

Gilbert Munger Near Bourron, France, circa 1886 Signed lower left Oil on panel 13 x 18 inches Gilbert Munger was born on April 14, 1837 in Madison, Connecticut. He showed interest ...

An oil on panel view of a winter snow scene by Boggio. The painting is signed bottom right. A charming view of a snow scene, a river running under a bridge heavy with snow. A Christ...

This luminous 19th century oil on canvas captures a serene woodland path dappled with golden afternoon light. The artist’s masterful brushwork conveys both the weight and texture of ...

Beautiful oil painting by Ernest Ange Duez depicting an elegant young lady leaning against a stone wall in a country setting. Oil on canvas Signed lower right Canvas dimensions: 12...

19th century French Barbizon School Painting, oil on canvas signed "Marin", Circa 1840. A very attractive bucolic, pastoral landsacpe scene with sheep grazing on the banks of a lake ...

A Dandy Time Was Had an interior Figural Scene by Walter Dendy Sadler 1880s Jovial evening of wine and good cheer by Walter Dendy Sadler (1854 - 19...

Signed figures in landscape pastel on canvas circa 1910 by French Barbizon painter Leon Augustin Lhermitte. The piece depicts a rural landscape with two women in traditional Breton c...