Barbizon School

[ bahr-buh-zon ]

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.

Barbizon School

/ ˈbɑːbɪˌzɒn /

noun

1. a group of French painters of landscapes of the 1840s, including Théodore Rousseau, Daubigny, Diaz, Corot, and Millet

Word History and Origins

Origin of Barbizon School¹

Named after Barbizon, village near Paris, where the painters gathered

Word History and Origins

Origin of Barbizon School¹

C19: from Barbizon a village near Paris and a favourite haunt of the painters

Example Sentences

Rousseau was a member of the Barbizon school of painters, who embraced naturalism in art.

From The Guardian

Mr. Barringer bristles at the use of the name Hudson River School, which was first coined in the mid-1870s, as the works of Cole, Durand, Church and others began to lose popularity to the Barbizon school of painting.

From New York Times

In attempting to reconfigure Ana as a rising star of the publishing world, he saps her of her awkwardness, rendering her suddenly, absurdly, blandly poised, as if she’d got her degree from the Barbizon School rather than Washington State University.

From The New Yorker

In his 20s he began painting landscapes in the forest of Fontainebleau, where an earlier generation of French artists — Camille Corot, Théodore Rousseau, Charles Daubigny, and the other members of the Barbizon school — began to imbue landscape painting with greater subjectivity.

From New York Times

Daubigny was born in Paris in 1817, about a generation before van Gogh, and was a member of the Barbizon school of landscape painters, which also included Jean-François Millet and Théodore Rousseau.

From New York Times