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| Road in the Woods |
Artist:Constant Troyon (French, Sèvres 1810–1865 Paris)
Date:mid-1840s
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:22 7/8 x 19 in. (58.1 x 48.3 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Bequest of Collis P. Huntington, 1900
Accession Number:25.110.19
In this animated scene of a simple dirt track, the eye is led simultaneously upward to the left and downward to the right. Troyon adopted this dual perspective from seventeenth-century Dutch landscape painting, which vanguard French artists of his generation studied for naturalistic alternatives to the more formal, Italianate models favored by the Academy. Troyon depicted the penetration of brilliant sunlight through the tree canopy with palpitating brushwork that was rarely equaled in the mid-1840s, when this work was probably painted.
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