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Landscape with Painter at Easel,
late 1840s
Constant Troyon, French, 1810–1865
y1986-79
A founding member of the Barbizon School, Troyon became best known in the 1850s for paintings of animals in rustic settings, but he began his career in the 1830s as a painter of landscapes. This sketch probably dates from the period when he concentrated on landscape, and it reveals the influence of the British artist John Constable, whose paintings he saw in Paris. It also testifies to Troyon’s friendship with the Romantic landscape artist Paul Huet (1803–1869), an early practitioner of plein-air painting, while the low horizon may reflect the works of seventeenth-century Dutch masters like Jacob van Ruysdael, whose works Troyon saw on a trip to the Netherlands in 1847.
Information
Title
Landscape with Painter at Easel
Dates
late 1840s
Maker
Medium
Oil on wood panel
Dimensions
44.6 x 60.5 cm (17 9/16 x 23 13/16 in.)
frame: 62 × 78 × 3 cm (24 7/16 × 30 11/16 × 1 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Clinton Wilder, Class of 1943
Object Number
y1986-79
Inscription
Artist initials, lower left: CT
Culture
Type
Materials
Mrs. Walter Scott Fitz, Boston (Henrietta Goddard Wigglesworth, d. 1927); ?Hazlitt Gallery, London (in 1957); Clinton Wilder, New York (until 1986; bequest to the Princeton University Art Museum).
