a group of French painters of landscapes of the 1840s, including Théodore Rousseau, Daubigny, Diaz, Corot, and Millet
Word origin
C19: from Barbizon a village near Paris and a favourite haunt of the painters
Barbizon School in American English
(ˈbɑrbəˌzɑn; French baʀbiˈzɔ̃̃)
a group of French romantic landscape painters (including Millet, Corot, Théodore Rousseau, and Daubigny) whosettled in Barbizon, a village in N France, in the mid-19th cent.