JEAN BAPTISTE CAMILLE COROT FRENCH BARBIZON SCHOOL

Jean Baptiste Camille Corot (French, 1796-1875) Oil on board - signed lower left. Fishermen on a riverbank under the shade of a tall tree. Board measures 6.5x8.25 in elaborately carved gilt frame to overall size of 9.5x11.5. The Barbizon school of painters were part of an art movement towards Realism in art, which arose in the context of the dominant Romantic Movement of the time. The Barbizon school was active roughly from 1830-1870. It takes its name from the village of Barbizon, France, near the Forest of Fontainebleau, where many of the artists gathered. Some of the most prominent features of this school are its tonal qualities, color, loose brushwork, and softness of form. In the spring of 1829, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot came to Barbizon to paint in the Forest of Fontainebleau, he had first painted in the forest at Chailly in 1822. He returned to Barbizon in the autumn of 1830 and in the summer of 1831, where he made drawings and oil studies, from which he made a painting intended for the Salon of 1830; "View of the Forest of Fontainebleau'" (now in the National Gallery in Washington) and, for the salon of 1831, another "View of the Forest of Fontainebleau"'.While there he met the members of the Barbizon school; Theodore Rousseau, Paul Huet, Constant Troyon, Jean-François Millet, and the young Charles-François Daubigny.During the late 1860s, the Barbizon painters attracted the attention of a younger generation of French artists studying in Paris. Condition: Very FineSeveral of those artists visited Fontainebleau Forest to paint the landscape, including Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley and Frédéric Bazille.In the 1870s those artists, among others, developed the art movement called Impressionism and practiced plein air painting.