Photo. Giraudon.
THE GRENADIERS AT EYLAU.
Détaille.
It is styled Le Concert Champêtre[141] and recalls his series of paintings entitled Souvenir d’Italie. Corot appears to have commenced his studies in the woods at Fontainebleau even before Millet, Rousseau and Diaz, so that he may fairly be styled the doyen of the now famous Barbizon School.
By his pupil A. P. C. Anastasi there are several landscapes at the Musée Condé, one of which represents Amsterdam at Eventide.
That Millet is absent from this collection is much to be regretted; but by Theodore Rousseau there are several landscapes, small in point of size, but nevertheless exhibiting this artist at his best; as for example, Le Crépuscule en Sologne and Fermes en Normandie. Ary Scheffer was the first artist to understand and befriend Rousseau when he started away on lines of his own, and it was through the kind offices of this painter that one of his first pictures was bought by the Duc d’Orléans. His landscapes in Auvergne are early works; and those painted at Barbizon—such as the pictures above named—are later and more finished achievements.