\paperw19995 \margr0\margl0 \plain \fs20 \f1 French painter. \par
Specializing in landscape painting, he traveled through various regions of France in search of the typ
es of scenery painted by Constable and the other British landscapists who had introduced a new way of representing nature. Eventually he settled at Barbizon, where he continued to paint landscapes with special attention to the effects of the weather and
natural phenomena (\i Clump of Oaks \i0 and \i Aspromonte\i0 , Paris, Louvre).