The key painters associated with the Barbizon School - Corot, Millet, Rousseau and Courbet - are among the finest landscape artists of the nineteenth century. From their base at the village of Barbizon in the Forest of Fontainebleau, just outside Paris, they painted nature as they saw it, anticipating many of the techniques and effects of Impressionism. In this survey Steven Adams re-evaluates French landscape painting in the half-century before Impressionism, placing this 'return to nature' against the background of the rapid industrialization and political crises of the period.
- ISBN10 0714829196
- ISBN13 9780714829197
- Publish Date 21 July 1994
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 16 June 2016
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Phaidon Press Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 240
- Language English