- Title:
- The Forest of Fontainebleau
- Object name(s):
- Picture; French
- Brief description:
- Barye was primarily a sculptor, particularly of animal bronzes. In 1841 he began painting landscapes in oil, and by the end of the decade he was regularly visiting the forest of Fontainebleau, south-east of Paris, where he painted alongside members of the Barbizon group of landscape painters. Although Barye never exhibited his oil paintings, including this one, he did show his watercolours of animals such as lions, tigers and elephants, which were critically acclaimed.Painted in the 1850s or 1860s, this small oil painting most likely shows a gorge in the forest at Fontainebleau. The scene feels dark and claustrophobic and evokes an almost primordial terrain. We are looking up at a gently sloping hillside, which is dotted with trees, rounded mossy rocks and larger more irregular boulders. Barye was particularly drawn to the more remote and desolate sites in and around the forest, and these landscapes also appear in many of his animal pictures.
- Collection:
- National Gallery
- Accession date:
- 1917-01-01
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1917
- Date - latest:
- 1917
- Acquisition source:
- Sir Hugh Percy Lane
- Credit line:
- Sir Hugh Lane Bequest, 1917, The National Gallery, London. In partnership with Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin.
- Current location:
- Not on display
- Current reproduction location:
- 1/20/739/982/mid_N-3233-00-000013.jpg
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 29.80
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 38.10
- Form:
- None
- Inscription content:
- Signed
- Material:
- oil
- Material:
- canvas
- Material:
- oil on canvas
- Object name:
- Picture; French
- Object production date:
- Date - period:
- 1850-74
- Object production date:
- 1850s-1860s
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1850
- Date - latest:
- 1869
- Object production person:
- Antoine-Louis Barye
- Person's birth date:
- 1796
- Person's death date:
- 1875
- Object production place:
- France
- Object production place:
- Paris
- Other number:
- NG3233
- Other number type:
- object number
- Other number:
- 0G96-0001-0000-0000
- Other number type:
- PID
- Other number:
- NG3233
- Other number type:
- display number
- Other number:
- 000-04O8-0000
- Other number type:
- PID (NG alternative)
- Other number:
- ng33233
- Other number type:
- sort number
- Owner:
- Sir Hugh Percy Lane
- Responsible department/section:
- Main Collection
- Right note:
- To encourage the use and reuse of the National Gallery's collection data, they are released under the following dedications and licences: Structured data (as opposed to narrative texts) are released under a Creative Commons Zero dedication (CC0): https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Descriptions, notes and all other narrative text content are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence (CC BY): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Images are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 licence (CC BY-NC-ND): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
- Style:
- landscapes
- Style:
- Barbizon
- User's reference:
- National Gallery Catalogues: The Nineteenth Century French Paintings
- Reference details:
- 44-8
- Reference note:
- Latest catalogue
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- National Gallery Catalogues: French School: Early 19th Century, Impressionists, Post-Impressionists etc.
- Reference details:
- 10
- Reference note:
- Previous catalogues
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- National Gallery Catalogues: French School
- Reference details:
- 11
- Reference note:
- Previous catalogues
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- The National Gallery: Complete Illustrated Catalogue
- Reference details:
- 19
- Reference note:
- Key bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Hugh Lane and his Pictures
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Hugh Lane: Founder of a Gallery of Modern Art for Ireland
- Reference details:
- 150
- Reference note:
- Additional references
- Reference type:
- reference
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Use licence for this record: CC BY
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