Le chemin du village (Village Road)
Artist
Constant Troyon
(French, 1810–1865)
Date1840s
Mediumoil on canvas
Dimensionscanvas: 38.1 × 27.9 cm (15 × 11 in.)
framed (no buildout): 61 × 53.3 × 8.3 cm (24 × 21 × 3 1/4 in.)
framed (no buildout): 61 × 53.3 × 8.3 cm (24 × 21 × 3 1/4 in.)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineBequest of Mrs. Charlotte E.W. Buffington
Terms
Object number1935.41
Label TextLike Narcisse Virgile Diaz de la Peña, Troyon began his artistic career as a decorative painter for the Sèvres porcelain factory. Having sketched landscapes on the side, he became friends with the artists active in Barbizon and began painting in the Fontainebleau Forest in the 1840s. The beech trees lining the path feature prominently in paintings of Fontainebleau, which consists primarily of oaks, beeches, and pine. Notice how similar Troyon’s composition is to Diaz’s Descent of the Bohemians with the tall thin trees towering above the figures. Photographer Eugène Cuvelier also captured a similar effect in his photograph of the woods, on view nearby.Provenancesold by Noel Collection (?) to Charlotte E.W. Buffington;bequeathed by Charlotte E.W. Buffington, to the Worcester Art Museum, 1935.On View
Not on view
Louis-Eugène Boudin
1890
