Barbizon Definition

Barbizon Sentence Examples

• He went to Paris at the age of twenty, and, as a pupil of Corot, came into close touch with the Barbizon masters.

• This last work, exhibited in 1848, obtained conspicuous success, but did not sell till Ledru Rollin, informed of the painter's dire distress, gave him Soo francs for it, and accompanied the purchase with a commission, the money for which enabled Millet to leave Paris for Barbizon, a village on the skirts of the forest of Fontainebleau.

• His pictures, like those of the rest of the Barbizon school, have since greatly increased in value.

• The distinctive note of the school is seen in the work of Rousseau and of Millet, each of whom, after spending his early years in Paris, made his home in Barbizon.

• They both died at Barbizon - Rousseau in 1867 and Millet in 1875.