Barbizon School

American  

[bahr-buh-zon] / ˈbɑr bəˌzɒn /

noun

1. a group of French painters of the mid-19th century whose landscapes and genre paintings depicted peasant life and the quality of natural light on objects.

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Barbizon School British  

/ ˈbɑːbɪˌzɒn /

noun

1. a group of French painters of landscapes of the 1840s, including Théodore Rousseau, Daubigny, Diaz, Corot, and Millet

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Etymology

Origin of Barbizon School

Named after Barbizon, village near Paris, where the painters gathered

Example Sentences

With 13 flanking galleries, he could give one to Courbet alone, three to Degas, others to Millet and the Barbizon School.

From Time Magazine Archive

I think it was he who took me to the Loan Exhibition of the Barbizon School of Painting that year.

From Memoirs of an American Prima Donna by Kellogg, Clara Louise

Nice boys they were of the Barbizon School, all in the best form.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, March 1, 1890 by Various

The famous Barbizon School of French Painters is a still more striking example.

From The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)

"A photographer!" said Sir Seymour, who was something of a connoisseur in painting, and had a few good specimens of the Barbizon School in his apartment at St. James's Palace.

From December Love by Hichens, Robert Smythe