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| | BARBIZON - LoveToKnow Article on BARBIZON |
 | | , a French village, near the forest of Fontainebleau, which gave its name to the Barbizon school of painters, whose leaders were Corot, Rousseau, Millet and Daubigny, together with Diaz, Dupr, Jacque, Francais, Harpignies and others. |
 | | They put aside the conventional idea of subject in their pictures of landscape and peasant life, and went direct to the fields and woods for their inspiration. |
 | | The distinctive note of the school is seen in the work of Rousseau and of Millet, each of whom, after spending his early years in Paris, made his home in Barbizon. |
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