Barbizon School

Barbizon School is the name of a movement of French landscape painters. It was a movement of mid-19th century led by Theodore Rousseau. The movement was named after a small village named Barbizon, located in the forest of Fontainebleau near Paris where Rousseau and others worked. The group also included Charles Daubigny and Jean Francois Millet.

Painter of the movement reacted against classical conventions and based their art on direct study of nature.