Originality of the Barbizon school -- A forerunner : Georges Michel -- The influence of English and Dutch painting -- An outsider : Paul Huet -- Corot : the model -- Barbizon : founders and followers -- Théodore Rousseau -- Other nature painters -- The turbulent forties -- Rousseau : 'Le grand refuse' -- 1848 : the dawn of liberty -- The mainstay of Barbizon : Jean-François Millet -- Five glorious years : 1850-55 -- Back to Jean-François Millet -- Daumier, Diaz and Decamps -- The end of the day -- The sons of light
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Translation of L'ecole de Barbizon
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-260) and index
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Translation of: L'école de Barbizon et le paysage français au XIXe siècle