The Road to Market
Constant Troyon
1858–1859
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 92 × 73.4 cm (36 1/4 × 28 7/8 in.); Framed: 130.4 × 111.8 × 13.6 cm (51 3/8 × 44 × 5 3/8 in.)
- Genre
- painting
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Styles
Tags
oil paintings (visual works)paintinglivestocknineteenth century19th centuryshepherdspaintroadcanvaswomansheepSkyoil on canvasfrenchanimalsdogmenoil paint (paint)painting (image making)painting techniqueswomenDogsoil paintingtreeseuropean paintingpathshorseNature
About
Two men—one on horseback, the other on foot—follow a woman carrying her child on a donkey. Together they lead a herd of sheep to a local market, aided by the dog standing watch to the right. The group emerges from the misty atmosphere of the early morning, the haze yellowed by the dusty path. Constant Troyon was drawn to images of animals more than most of his Barbizon School peers, who included Camille Corot and Jean-François Millet. Later in his career Troyon was celebrated as an animalier, a painter of animals.
