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A French school of the middle of the 19th century centering in the village of Barbizon near the forest of Fontainebleau Its members went straight to nature in disregard of academic tradition treating their subjects faithfully and with poetic feeling for color light and atmosphere It is exemplified esp in landscapes by Corot Rousseau Daubigny Jules Dupreacute and Diaz Associated with them are certain painters of animals as Troyon and Jaque and of peasant life as Millet and Jules Breton