Barbizon School Forest Landscape Oil Painting Courbet Rousseau

French school, 19th century Barbizon school or influence Oil on canvas, 65 x 55.5 cm (frame 75 x 66 cm), illegible or erased signature at the bottom. Undergrowth animated by a waterfall and mossy rocks, play of subdued light filtering through the foliage, dark palette in shades of browns and greens. Forest landscape painting in the naturalist tradition of the Barbizon school, comparable to Théodore Rousseau or Gustave Courbet for the dramatic treatment of light and pictorial material. Frame in wood and gilded stucco, period. .