- Troyon, Constant by Great Soviet Encyclopedia
Born Aug. 28, 1810, in Sèvres; died Mar. 20,1865, in Paris. French painter of the Barbizon school.Troyon started his career as a porcelain painter. He later became acquainted with T. Rousseau and J. Dupré and, on a trip in 1847 to Belgium and Holland, saw the works of P. Potter and A. Cuyp. As a result, he turned to the ...
- Barbizon school by Jazmin Thompson
... Barbizon, a village near Paris; most notable of this group were Charles-François Daubigny, Narcisse-Virgile Díaz de la Peña, Jules Dupré, Charles-Émile Jacque, and Constant Troyon. Each had his own style, but all emphasized painting out-of-doors directly from nature, using a limited palette, and creating atmosphere or mood in their landscapes.
- School by Webster's
... painters of animals, as Troyon and Jaque, and of peasant life, as Millet and Jules Breton.(n.) A place for learned intercourse and instruction; an institution for learning; an educational establishment; a place for acquiring knowledge and mental training; as, the school of the prophets.(v.t.) To tutor; to chide and admonish; to reprove; to subject to ...
- Barbizon school by Keegan Butler
... Diaz de la Peña, Constant Troyon, and Charles Daubigny. These men reacted against the conventions of classical landscape and advocated a direct study of nature. Their work was strongly influenced by 17th-century Dutch landscape masters including Ruisdael, Cuyp, and Hobbema. Corot and Millet are often associated with the Barbizon group, but in fact Corot's ...
- Animal Genre by Great Soviet Encyclopedia
... J. Audubon in the USA and C. Troyon in France; sculptors P. L. Klodt and E. A. Lanceray in Russia, A. Gaull in Germany, C. Thom-sen in Denmark); these studies often depicted animals in their natural setting (B. Liljefors in Sweden and A. S. Stepanov in Russia) or in vivid, graceful characterizations (sculptors F. Pompon in France and V. A. Serov in Russia).The ...