Impressionistic landscape was executed in the late 19th century by a unknown French artist in the manner of famous Barbison school.

The Barbizon School was a group of landscape artists working in the area of ​​the French town of Barbizon, south of Paris. They rejected the Academic tradition, abandoning theory in an attempt to achieve a truer representation of life in the countryside, and are part of the French Realist movement.Theodore Rousseau (not to be confused with naive artist Henri Rousseau) is the best-known member of the group. Other prominent members included Constant Troyon and Charles-Francois Daubigny.Realist painters Jean-Francois Millet and Camille Corot are also sometimes loosely associated with this school.The Barbizon School artists are often considered to have sown the seeds of Modernism with their individualism, and were the forerunners of the Impressionists, who took a similar philosophical approach to their art.

Literature: Amory, Dita. "The Barbizon School: French Painters of Nature". In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000

Inscription: signed lower right, original bronze plaque with the artist´s name mounted to the frame.

Technique: oil on canvas. Luxuriousy French original period gold-plated frame.

Measurements: unframed w 16 1/4 " x h 12 1/4 " (41 x 31 cm); framed w 26 1/4 " x h 22 1/4 " (66,5 x 56,5 cm).

Condition: in very good condition.