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

The phrase so often heard to-day, "The Barbizon School," is rather wider than a strict interpretation would warrant, since Millet and Rousseau were the only ones of the group who lived in the village.

From Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)

Some writers assert that Giorgione was the first of the romanticists, others give the palm to Watteau, a third section to Delacroix, and a fourth to the Barbizon School.

From Art Principles With Special Reference to Painting Together with Notes on the Illusions Produced by the Painter by Govett, Ernest

In that half-century the Barbizon School, those great men of 1830, Corot, Rousseau, Millet, Daubigny, Troyon, Diaz, and the rest had come to fruition.

From Constable by Hind, C. Lewis (Charles Lewis)

It was at this same period that I went to Fontainebleau to study the Barbizon School and met the son of Millet, who was trying to paint and never succeeded.

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