Focus on Road in the Woods (Constant Troyon) and discuss the abstract.
Road in the Woods is a 19th-century painting by French painter Constant Troyon. Done in oil on canvas, the work depicts two dirt roads heading through a wooded area. Troyon, a member of the Barbizon school, was inspire to render woods in such a way by 17th century Dutch landscape painters. Road in the Woods is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Barbizon school Metropolitan Museum of Art Constant Troyon