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Most of the town can be seen from the main street, the Grande Rue. At the top of the street is Jean-François Millet’s House & Studio (27 Grande Rue, Barbizon, ☎ 01 60 66 21 55), where the artist lived and worked on his masterpieces, including The Angelus, The Gleaners and The Sower, from 1849 until his death in 1875. One room is reserved for contemporary art exhibitions. Free entry, open daily from 9:30am to 12:30pm and 2pm to 5:30pm.
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The Musée Municipal de l’Ecole de Barbizon (☎ 01 60 66 22 27) is made up of two museums, the Auberge Ganne (92 Grande Rue) and the Maison-Atelier Théodore Rousseau (55 Grande Rue). The Auberge Ganne, restored in 1995, was a popular inn for landscape painters from all over the world, who came to check out the action in the forests around Barbizon and Fontainebleau from 1837 until 1870. The scenes on the walls and furniture painted by guests are still intact, and the museum houses a collection of over 400 paintings and masterpieces from the Barbizon school, including works by Camille Corot, Jules Dupré and Ferdinand Chaigneau. Rousseau’s house and studio, a tiny space made up of two rooms next to a chapel, is now a museum dedicated to the artist and his work. There’s also a room dedicated to the artist Rosa Bonheur. Open daily except Tuesday, 10am to 12:30pm and 2 to 5:30pm. Tickets (valid for both museums) are €4.50, €2.30 for students, children under 12 free. There’s no information in English except a guide on sale in the gift shop for €9.50.
For those who want to see where the Barbizon painters found their inspiration, stop by the tourist information center (55 Grande Rue) and ask for the free English brochure, Barbizon Painters Discovery Trail, which maps out a two- to three-hour walk through the forest highlighting eight of their favorite painting spots. It’s an easy trail, perfect for a casual, non-strenuous stroll.
<< Fontainebleau Forest || Milly-la-Forêt >>
Of, relating to, or characteristic of a 19th-century group of landscape painters in France that included Corot, Daubigny, Millet, and Rousseau.
[After Barbizon, a village of north-central France.]
Village in the forest of Fontainebleau, N central France. It gave its name to a group of 19th-century landscape painters who worked here; they include Corot, Daubigny, and Millet.
Village near the forest of Fontainebleau, much frequented by artists (the École de Barbizon, including Corot, Millet, Daubigny, and Théodore Rousseau) in the mid-19th c.
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Commune of Barbizon |
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| Country | France | |
| Region | Île-de-France | |
| Department | Seine-et-Marne | |
| Arrondissement | Melun | |
| Canton | Perthes | |
| Intercommunality | Pays de Bière | |
| Mayor | Claude Marchal (2001-2008) |
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| Altitude | 75 m–93 m | |
| Land area¹ | 5.27 km² | |
| Population² (1999) |
1,490 | |
| - Density | 283/km² (1999) | |
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| INSEE/Postal code | 77022/ 77630 | |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | ||
| 2 Population sans doubles comptes: single count of residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel). | ||
Barbizon is a village and a commune of the Seine-et-Marne département, in France, located near the Fontainebleau Forest.
The inhabitants are called Barbizonais.
As of the census of 1999, there where 1,490 people residing in the village.
The Barbizon school of painters is named after the village; Théodore Rousseau and Jean-François Millet, leaders of the school, made their homes and died in the village.
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