Cowherd In The Forest Of Fontainebleau. Paul Vernon. Hsp 25 X 33 Cm

Paul Vernon, born in 1796, was a student of Diaz and Théodore Rousseau. He exhibited at the Salon and is thus considered a Master of the Barbizon school. According to an extract from the Journal des deux monde, Journal des grands voyages published in 1880, he is described as such: "Paul Vernon is now a Master of those of the second generation. The first which is composed of Diaz, Corot, Rousseau etc... In Paul Vernon, talent is subdivided into two distinct ways: when he is himself, full of melancholic reveries, as befits a singer of the woods, as he was at Bas-Breau, as he is in the forest of Chambord and at Belles-Croix, there, the fanfares of the Pan Flute have muffled tones and the old oaks plunge into the atmosphere. When he is an imitator of Rousseau, he is so in such a way that the most cunning expert does not see a thing, and does not know how to distinguish the Master from the pupil. I keep for the "good mouth" a realist painter of the most sincere and the most distinguished."