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

"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

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)

But most important here are the examples of the Barbizon School, romantic landscape painters of the mid-Nineteenth Century, who had much to do with the development of the Inness-Wyant group in America.

From An Art-Lovers Guide to the Exposition by Cheney, Sheldon

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)