ORIGINAL and beautiful signed French idyllic landscape painting from the 1800s. This is a wonderful oil on hand carved beveled board. Members of the Barbizon School came from different backgrounds and worked in a range of styles, but they were drawn together by their passion for painting "en plein air" and their desire to elevate landscape painting from a mere background to mythological or classical scenes, and to a subject in its own right. This piece is brilliant, and our pictures do not do it justice. The overall dimensions are 5.5" x 4". This truly is a lovely piece.
The Barbizon school was active roughly from 1830 through 1870.
It takes its name from the village of Barbizon, France.
