Description: An oil on canvas. A vase of assorted flowers, roses, zinnias, pansies, etc. three butterflies sitting on a table in front of a classic shaped column with a landscape behind. Fine craquelure.


History: Barbizon school, mid-19th-century French school of painting, part of a larger European movement toward naturalism in art, that made a significant contribution to the establishment of Realism in French landscape painting. Inspired by the Romantic movement’s search for solace in nature, the Barbizon painters nevertheless turned away from the melodramatic picturesqueness of established Romantic landscape painters as well as from the classical academic tradition, which used landscape merely as a backdrop for allegory and historical narrative. The Barbizon artists painted landscape in realistic terms and for its own sake. They based their art on the works of 17th-century French and Dutch and contemporary English landscape painters, all of whom approached their subject with sensitive observation and a deep love of nature.

Provenance: N/A


Dimensions: Weight (Pounds & Ounces) = 8 | Height(in) = 38 | Width(in) = 30 | Depth(in) = 2

Size of Artwork(in): 33.5 x 25.5" sight.


Artist Name: French School


Medium: Oil on Canvas


Circa: Mid 19th C

Under UV inspection Fine craquelure, some surface dirt and a light discoloration of varnish. Verso, a 1.5 x 1.5" patch.