Road in the Woods
Artist: Constant Troyon (French, 1810–1865)
Original Dimensions: 22 7/8" x 19"
Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
About Artwork: (mid-1840s) "In this animated scene of a simple dirt track, the eye is led simultaneously upward to the left and downward to the right. Troyon adopted this dual perspective from seventeenth-century Dutch landscape painting, which vanguard French artists of his generation studied for naturalistic alternatives to more formal, Italianate models favored by the state-sponsored Académie des Beaux-Arts. Troyon depicted the penetration of brilliant sunlight through the tree canopy with palpitating brushwork that was rarely equaled in the mid-1840s, when this work was probably painted." - (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

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