Wooded View near Barbizon by Johan Hendrik Weissenbruch

Wooded View near Barbizon 1900

impressionist painting style

impressionist landscape

possibly oil pastel

oil painting

forest

underpainting

painting painterly

watercolour illustration

watercolor

warm toned green

environment sketch

"Wooded View near Barbizon" is a 1900 oil-on-canvas landscape painting by Dutch artist Johan Hendrik Weissenbruch. It depicts a serene forest scene with tall trees, rocky outcroppings, and a small figure in the distance. The painting's muted palette and loose brushwork evoke a sense of tranquility and solitude, characteristic of Weissenbruch's style, often referred to as the Barbizon school, focusing on capturing the beauty of natural landscapes. This particular painting is part of the Rijksmuseum collection in Amsterdam, offering a glimpse into the artist's fascination with the natural world.

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The Barbizon artists’ colony was located on the edge of the forest of Fontainebleau, southeast of Paris. Barbizon painters exerted a major influence on the Hague School. For this reason, Weissenbruch made a pilgrimage there for his only trip abroad, which he made at the ripe age of 76! He portrayed the characteristic birch forest, with a painter leaning against a boulder while sketching.