Road in the Woods, Oil on canvas, 22 7/8 x 19 in. ( x cm), Paintings, Constant Troyon (French, Sèvres 1810–1865 Paris

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Road in the Woods, Oil on canvas, 22 7/8 x 19 in. ( x 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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