The Barbizon School and the Nature of Landscape

Exhibition Brochure

Exhibition Brochure
This publication offers an in-depth look at The Barbizon School and the Nature of Landscape, featuring an essay from the curator Rachel Keith, images, and a checklist. This publication is available at no charge in the exhibition gallery for the duration of the show.

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Resources for Further Learning

In the Forest of Fontainebleau: Painters and Photographers from Corot to Manet. Exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, on display March 2 to June 8, 2008. Catalog available.
Link: http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/fontainebleauinfo.shtm

Valenciennes, Daubigny, And The Origins Of French Landscape Painting (2005). By Michael Marlais, John Varriano, and Wendy M. Watson.

A Romance with the Landscape: Realism to Impressionism (2007). By Linda Stratford.

The Barbizon School & the Origins of Impressionism (1994).
By Steven Adams

The Spectacle of Nature: Landscape and Bourgeois Culture in Nineteenth-Century France (1990). By Nicholas Green.