"Peasant Girl with Rake" - 19th Century French
Barbizon School
Oil on board | Unsigned
A quietly beautiful 19th-century oil painting in the style of the Barbizon School-French artists who, between the 1830s and 1870s, left the academic studios behind to paint the natural world as they saw it. Centered in the village of Barbizon near the Forest of Fontainebleau, these painters embraced real life, working outdoors to capture the honest, everyday beauty of rural France.
Their work, grounded in realism with a romantic touch, helped pave the way for Impressionism. In fact, Claude Monet admired Barbizon artists like Daubigny, whose lyrical landscapes influenced Monet's early river scenes.
Though unsigned, this piece captures that same spirit-unpretentious, heartfelt, and full of quiet charm.
"Peasant Girl with Rake" - 19th Century French
Barbizon School
Oil on board | Unsigned
A quietly beautiful 19th-century oil painting in the style of the Barbizon School-French artists who, between the 1830s and 1870s, left the academic studios behind to paint the natural world as they saw it. Centered in the village of Barbizon near the Forest of Fontainebleau, these painters embraced real life, working outdoors to capture the honest, everyday beauty of rural France.
Their work, grounded in realism with a romantic touch, helped pave the way for Impressionism. In fact, Claude Monet admired Barbizon artists like Daubigny, whose lyrical landscapes influenced Monet's early river scenes.
Though unsigned, this piece captures that same spirit-unpretentious, heartfelt, and full of quiet charm.