"French School, 19th Century, "farmyard Scene With Pigs""
The Barbizon painters maintained a deep and remarkably modern connection to the animal world, portraying it with notable sensitivity and tenderness. Through Jean-François Millet’s scenes of peasant life and Théodore Rousseau’s evocations of the solitude of the Forest of Fontainebleau—along with the work of other artists centered in the village of Barbizon—this movement reveals a powerful current within nineteenth-century French art. Though controversial in France, these independent artists were eagerly collected in America. They firmly rejected idealization and polished finish, embracing instead an earthy sincerity of vision that stands at the threshold of Impressionism. 
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