Showing posts with label Barbizon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Barbizon. Show all posts
The Candid Canvas of the Barbizon School

The Candid Canvas of the Barbizon School

Women Picking Daisies (1865-70) by Jean Baptiste-Camille Corot In the mid-19th century the French village of Barbizon was the artis...
Impressionist originality challenged by Italian 'patch' painters

Impressionist originality challenged by Italian 'patch' painters

Cristiano Banti's "Peasant Women in Conversation" (1861) Artistic reputations are very important to some countries. I...