Room 165

Millet, Daubigny and Barbizon

1840–1877, France (Barbizon, Auvers-sur-Oise), Barbizon School

Around 1850 painters left Paris for the village of Barbizon on the edge of the forest of Fontainebleau to paint nature and rural life directly. Jean-François Millet showed peasant women and men at work – sowing, digging, gleaning – with quiet dignity. Charles-François Daubigny painted rivers, banks and moonlit nights from his studio boat and became a model for the Impressionists.

All works

• Leconte de Lisle
• Sunset on the River
• Portrait of a Man
• The Farm
• Calling Home the Cows
• Washerwomen at the Oise River near Valmondois
• Falling Leaves
• Auvers (Washerwomen)
• The Sower
• Landscape, Distant Village
• The Newborn
• Bridge over an Estuary
• Costume Studies
• A Woodland Pond
• Path in the Countryside, Vichy
• Apple Trees in Auvers
• Shepherd Returning with His Flock
• Large Sheepfold
• The Gleaners
• The Eagle’s Nest in the Forest of Fontainebleau
• The Diggers
• The Ford
• The Wool Carder
• Marsh
• The Large Shepherdess
• Deer in the Woods
• Departure for Work
• Autumn
• Woman Emptying a Bucket
• Moonlight at Valmondois
• The Churner
• Rising Moon
• The Seamstress
• Sunrise
• The Evening Gathering
• Sunset