The Barbizon Painters
Alongside the Forest of Fontainebleau in France, is a village called Barbizon. It became famous worldwide by its name being associated with a group of distinguished French painters of the figure, the animal, and the landscape, whose names standout brilliantly in the annals of art.
It was about 1830 that the town began to be the working place of artists. This group of painters were known as "The Men of Thirty".
Here, life was primitive and inexpensive, and far from the haunts of men, and they worked out their problems, painted their canvases, and lived close to nature. It was here, the artists, founded the "Fontainebleau School".
Barbizon
French-Artists
"The Men of Thirty"
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Jean Francois Millet
French Realist Painter
1814-1875
French Landscape Naturalist painter
1812-1867
 Charles Francois Daubigny
French Landscape Painter
1817-1878
French Landscape painter
1808-1876
 Jules Dupré
French Landscape Painter
1811-1889
French
animal painter
1813-1894
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