19th Century European Paintings including Spanish Painting 1850 - 1930

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Lot 310
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Constant Troyon French, 1810-1865

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Description

  • Constant Troyon
  • la rentree du troupeau

  • signed C. TROYON l.l.

  • oil on canvas

  • 90 by 128.5cm., 35 1/2 by 54 1/2 in.

Provenance

Thomas McLean, London
Sale: Christie's, New York, 15 February 1995, lot 104
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

Exhibited

Leipzig, Museum der bildenden Künste, Von Corot bis Monet, Sammlung Marion und Hans-Peter Bühler, 1995-96, no. 40 (illustrated in the catalogue)
Nuremberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Im Zeichen der Ebene und des Himmels: Künstlerkolonien in Europa, 2001-02, no. 175 (illustrated in the catalogue)

Catalogue Note

Born in Sèvres, Troyon owed his artistic training to his godfather who was curator of the Porcelain manufactory museum. There, he was taught to paint on porcelain while pursuing studies in landscape painting and drawing. In the early 1920s he met Camille Roqueplan who introduced him to Diaz de la Peña in 1824. Along with Diaz and Rousseau, Troyon was one of the early initiators of the Barbizon movement.

Following a trip to Holland in 1847, Troyon began to introduce animals into his landscapes, inspired by the Dutch seventeenth-century masters Potter and Cuyp. In La Rentrée du troupeau Troyon masterfully blends the principles of plein airisme with the compositional elements and scale of the Dutch animaliers.