Fine Arts ExhibitionFine Arts ExhibitionBarbizon
Step inside the 19th-century inn where landscape painters lived, worked, and left sketches still visible on the walls. This intimate museum recreates the era when artists like Rousseau and Millet gathered here before influencing the Impressionists.
Tips
June 13 at 6:15am
Channel your inner 19th-century painter on this literary dawn hike through Fontainebleau forest. You'll cover 22 or 37 kilometers while readings from Théophile Thoré's "Par Monts et par Bois" bring the 1847 walk that inspired the Barbizon School to life as the sun rises over gorges, rock formations, and ancient woodlands.
June 13 at 2:30pm
Dive into rarely seen archives on these 30-minute guided tours. You'll explore police registers, the inn's guestbook, and delicate etchings, including a self-portrait by Jean-François Millet and Japanese prints that reveal the Barbizon artists' private world.
June 14 at 2:30pm
Watch art history come alive as two guides, a historian and a practicing artist, reveal the secrets behind drawing and printmaking. Christel Jung unpacks the stories while Florence Durand demonstrates authentic materials: lead pencil, charcoal, sanguine, copper plate, and drypoint.
BarbizonOpens Thursday at 10:00 AM
Fine Arts ExhibitionFine Arts ExhibitionStep inside the 19th-century inn where landscape painters lived, worked, and left sketches still visible on the walls. This intimate museum recreates the era when artists like Rousseau and Millet gathered here before influencing the Impressionists.
Tips
June 13 at 6:15am
Channel your inner 19th-century painter on this literary dawn hike through Fontainebleau forest. You'll cover 22 or 37 kilometers while readings from Théophile Thoré's "Par Monts et par Bois" bring the 1847 walk that inspired the Barbizon School to life as the sun rises over gorges, rock formations, and ancient woodlands.
June 13 at 2:30pm
Dive into rarely seen archives on these 30-minute guided tours. You'll explore police registers, the inn's guestbook, and delicate etchings, including a self-portrait by Jean-François Millet and Japanese prints that reveal the Barbizon artists' private world.
June 14 at 2:30pm
Watch art history come alive as two guides, a historian and a practicing artist, reveal the secrets behind drawing and printmaking. Christel Jung unpacks the stories while Florence Durand demonstrates authentic materials: lead pencil, charcoal, sanguine, copper plate, and drypoint.