Description:
a dark forest with some light breaking through a canopy of trees that is shading a pool of water below, what looks like a bird with bright red feathers is perched near the water; serene; landscape; water; outdoor; vegetation
Label Text:
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, French artists traveled to Italy to pursue landscape painting, but the influence of more naturalistic Dutch landscape traditions led French artists to begin to explore their own native landscape. The group of artists who painted in the Forest of Fontainebleau outside of Paris, led by Théodore Rousseau (whose work is on view in this gallery), became known as the Barbizon School of French landscape painting, named for the nearby hamlet.
In contrast to the vast landscapes of the American West depicted by the Hudson River School, the “civilized” wilderness of Fontainebleau offered intimate, deep forest interiors, which became Diaz de la Peña’s signature subject. Here, a solitary figure bundles wood near a pool in the dark shade of the
old-growth trees.
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