Barbizon School
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of around 60 paintings, pastels, prints and drawings by artists associated with the Barbizon School, dating from around 1830–1875. The collection boasts works by artists including Jean-François Millet, Théodore Rousseau, Narcisse Virgile Diaz de la Peña, Aldolphe Hervier, Charles Emile Jacque, Constant Troyon and Camille Corot. Millet is represented by a strong group of paintings and pastels including his stark and simple expression of the dignity of labour ‘Going to Work’. Rousseau preferred to paint landscapes and in ‘The Forest of Clairbois’ Rousseau uses dark and earthy colours to capture the forest’s solemnity and drama. Corot’s late landscape, ‘Pastorale’, was one of the first French paintings in the collection, along with Troyon’s ‘Landscape and Cattle’ following their presentation by the family of the late James Reid of Auchterarder in 1896. Barbizon School artists were also collected by James Donald and Sir William Burrell. The Barbizon School was the name given to this group of artists, who shared a passion for nature and painted realistic landscapes and scenes of rural life in and around the village of Barbizon in the forest of Fountainbleau, south-east of Paris.
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