Brooklyn Museum: European Art: Hillside with Rocky Outcrops

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Hillside with Rocky Outcrops

Troyon found great critical and commercial success in the 1850s with his images of the pastoral French countryside. A career-long passion for open-air painting compelled Troyon to travel widely throughout France with his paint box. Here, he innovatively employs his palette knife—a tool typically used to mix colors—rather than his brush to lay thick layers of pure pigment on the panel. Moreover, Troyon allows the negative space (the unpainted portions of the panel) to define the contours of the steep hillside.

Artist: Constant Troyon, French, 1810-1865
Medium: Oil on panel
Place Made: France
Dates: ca. 1850
Dimensions: 11 7/8 x 24 3/8 in. (30.2 x 61.9 cm)
Signature: Signed lower right: "C. TROYON"
Collections: European Art
Museum Location: This item is on view in Beaux-Arts Court, South, 3rd Floor
Accession Number: 1994.5
Credit Line: Healy Purchase Fund B and gift of Marion Gans, by exchange
Image: Overall, 1994.5_SL1.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph

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