Road in the Woods
Constant Troyon
Swoop Framed Print


Road in the Woods
Swoop Framed Print
£74.99

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  • Artist: Constant Troyon

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INKS:
This premium art print is made using a Giclée process using official UV (pigment based) inks. These UV inks contain enhanced light stabilisers; offering far more durability than dye-based inks which under proper care will keep your piece of art looking fantastic for 100+ years.

PAPER:
MATT 200gsm - Fine Art Matt - is a fine art paper. A premium-quality heavyweight museum-quality paper with a smooth, clean finish.
MATT 310gsm - Hahnemuhle German Etching - is a premium paper. A heavy-duty paper with a textured finish, the velvety matt surface is optimised for high-contrast prints. 
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GLOSS 260gsm - Hahnemuhle Photo Lustre -This specialist photo paper has a semi-gloss, velvet finish and guarantees long-lasting, fade-resistant prints. The paper has deeper colour saturation than matt paper, is thicker than traditional consumer papers and is more resistant to fingerprints and smudges.

MOUNT:
Our mount for this piece comes in 2mm white and is 'conservation' grade, FSC certified, 100% acid free, and will not discolour or fade with age.

FRAME:
A solid pine frame with a decorative curved profile and a smooth, satin finish. The Swoop is solid, shapely and makes a real impact. Curved profile draws attention to your image. Made-to-order in the UK by specialist picture framers. All framed prints are delivered fully strung, ready for hanging.

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Painting:
Road in the Woods

Artist:
Constant Troyon

Date:
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 the more formal, Italianate models favored by the Academy. 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.

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Constant Troyon (August 28, 1810 ? February 21, 1865) was a French painter of the Barbizon school. In the early part of his career he painted mostly landscapes. It was only comparatively late in life that Troyon found his métier as a painter of animals, and achieved international recognition.

He was born in Sèvres, near Paris, where his father was connected with the famous manufactory of porcelain. Troyon entered the ateliers very young as a decorator, and until he was twenty he labored assiduously at the minute details of porcelain ornamentation; and this kind of work he mastered so thoroughly that it was many years before he overcame its limitations. By the time he reached twenty-one he was travelling the country as an artist, and painting landscapes.

Troyon was a favorite with Camille Roqueplan, an artist of distinction eight years his senior, and he became one of his pupils after receiving certain tuition from a painter, now quite unknown, named Alfred Riocreux. Roqueplan introduced Troyon to Rousseau, Jules Dupré, and the other Barbizon painters, and in his pictures between 1840 and 1847 he seemed to endeavour to follow in their footsteps. But as a landscapist Troyon would never have been recognized as a thorough master, although his work of the period is marked with much sincerity and met with a certain success. It may be pointed out, however, that in one or two pure landscapes of the end of his life he achieved qualities of the highest artistic kind; but this was after lengthy experience as a cattle painter, by which his talents had become thoroughly developed.

In 1846 Troyon went to the Netherlands, and at the Hague saw Paulus Potter's famous "Young Bull". From the studies he made of this picture, of Cuyp's sunny landscapes, and Rembrandt's noble masterpieces he soon evolved a new method of painting, and it is only in works produced after this time that Troyon's true individuality is revealed. When he became conscious of his power as an animal painter he developed with rapidity and success, until his works became recognized as masterpieces in Britain and America, as well as in all countries of the Continent.

Success, however, came too late, Troyon never quite believed in it himself, and even when he could command the market of several countries he still grumbled loudly at the way the world treated him. Yet he was decorated with the Legion of Honour, and five times received medals at the Paris Salon, while Napoleon III was one of his patrons; and it is certain he was at least as financially successful as his Barbizon colleagues.

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