Barbizon, School
Group of French romantic landscape painters in the mid 19th century. Under the leadership of Millet and T. Rousseau, were settled and worked in the village Barbizon of Fontainebleau. Avoiding the academic conventions, they were painting the so called “paysage intime”, the unimpressive elements of countryside and rural life. Their works, which are clearly influenced by Dutch landscape painters of the 17th century and Constable, announce in many ways Impressionism. Other members of the group were Daubigny, Dupré and Diaz.