Jules-Louis Dusaussay, Barbizon School Landscape With Cottages, Chickens & Figure People such as Paul Cézanne (1839-1906)

such as Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) and Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) had left an indelible mark

Year of creation 1842

The buildings are little more than a silhouette with the ones in the foreground appearing more prominent through the use of impasto

The portrait is housed within its original fruitwood frame

Jules-Louis Dusaussay, Barbizon School Landscape With Cottages, Chickens & Figure People such as Paul Cézanne (1839-1906)An atmospheric 19th century oil on canvas depicting a rural scene with chickens, cottages and a woman washing linens. A worn pathway winds between two buckled trees and leads onto open pasture where several chickens peck the earth. While, in the foreground, a woman dressed in a blue dress with a white apron is kneeling by a pond and washing laundry. Stylistically, the painting fits with the approach taken by the Barbizon school of artists who were