Road in the Woods, Oil on canvas, 22 7/8 x 19 in. (58.1 x 48.3 cm), Paintings, Constant Troyon (French, Sèvres 1810–1865 Paris), 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
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Road, Woods, Oil, canvas, 22 7/8 x 19, 58.1 48.3 cm, Paintings, Constant Troyon, French, Sèvres, 1810–1865, Paris, animated scene, simple dirt track, eye, led simultaneously, upward, left, downward, right, Troyon adopted, dual perspective, seventeenth-century Dutch, landscape, painting, vanguard French, artists, generation studied, naturalistic alternatives, formal, Italianate models, favored, Academy
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