. International Studio an Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art. T HE BARBIZOX PAINTERSBY E. L. GARY We are apt to think of the School of1830 as a group of artists distinguishedby a common worship of nature. Ahhough theyhave been called the Romanticists, the title can onlybe applied with an approach toward accuracy to afew of them who inherit directly from and Decamps belong to this class, whosemembers painted the adjusted landscape, wentto Italy and to the East for their scenery and soughttheir subjects in literature and history. Their artwas redolent of cultivation
. International Studio an Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art. T HE BARBIZOX PAINTERSBY E. L. GARY We are apt to think of the School of1830 as a group of artists distinguishedby a common worship of nature. Ahhough theyhave been called the Romanticists, the title can onlybe applied with an approach toward accuracy to afew of them who inherit directly from and Decamps belong to this class, whosemembers painted the adjusted landscape, wentto Italy and to the East for their scenery and soughttheir subjects in literature and history. Their artwas redolent of cultivation, they painted anecdotes,but they chose their anecdotes with skill and taste,and they narrated the detail of picturesque eventswith eloquence. Mr. Brownell has said of them asa class that to lament their lack of poetry is to misstheir admirable rhetoric, to regret their imperfectfeeling for decorativeness is to miss their delightfuldecorum. The Fontainebleau or Barbizon paint-ers, on the other hand, practised what the Germans j^ //. Courtesy oj Hurantl KiielTHE GOOSE would call Heim Kiinst; they found their subjectsclose at hand, painted the fields and forests at theirown doors, and the peasants at their work. More-over, they gave their painting the character of por-traiture, seeking the significance of individualscenes, and scrutinizing the features of a landscapewith the idea of rendering its exact , of course, was of the nature of realism, but aswe now see this particular group, assigned, some-what too closely for the facts, to the period 1830,we perceive so many qualities added to this one offaithfulness in reproduction, and we have becomeso conscious through long familiarity with theirworks of the marked differences in temperament,style, emotion and execution characterizing thedifferent members of the group, that we no longerdwell upon their realism, but push the term alongto apply it to the newer men, to the impressionists,who in their turn have becom
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