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French Barbizon School Painter, 1810-1865 Troyon's students included Evariste-Vital Luminais. French painter. He was brought up among the Sevres ceramics workers and received his first lessons in drawing and painting from Denis-Desire Riocreux (1791-1872), a porcelain painter who was one of the founders of the Musee National de Ceramique. Troyon began his career as a painter at the Sevres factory while also studying landscape painting in his spare time.
Cattle Going to Work; Impression of Morning
1855. Oil on canvas. 102.25 x 157.5 in. (260 x 400 cm). Musee D'Orsay, Paris, France. © Reunion des Musees Nationaux / Art Resource, NY.
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