Word: barbizon
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...Fontainebleau outside Paris. Owing to energetic measures to prevent the spread of the conflagration, the situation was reported to be well in hand, and, apparently, there was no danger to the historic Palais de Fontainebleau (a home of Emperors and Kings of France) or to the American colony at Barbizon (once the home of Robert Louis Stevenson...
...home of Jean François Millet at Barbizon, France, where he "lived the simple life" in a chestnut forest with the rest of the famous Barbizon Group (Corot, Rousseau, Diaz, Harpignies) 50 years ago, has been restored by two of his pupils at their own expense, and will be opened to the public as a memorial. The simple life was no affectation for the peasant Millet. Often he and his wife did not eat, but gave the little food that they had to their children. Today, if Millet were alive, he could easily maintain a yacht from royalties...
Eighteenth century work is illustrated by Watteau and Fragonard. The work of the Barbizon school may be studied in scenes of peasant life by Charles Jacque and Millet, and landscapes by Daubigny, Corot, and Rousseau. Etchings of Paris by Lalanne and Lepere are shown, Lithographs by Gavarni, Chariet, Raffet, Daumier, and Manet; landscape etchings by Pissarro, and a very rare lithograph of four figures by Ingres...
...valuable article is the one by Charles de Kay on "Theodore Rousseau and the French Landscape School." Rousseau was one of the Barbizon school and few artists have carried the landscape to such a pitch...