Out of Paris, into the forest
Barbizon School
French painters who left Paris for the forest of Fontainebleau and the fields around it, between the 1830s and the 1870s. Rousseau's forest going dark on a winter evening, Daubigny's ducks on a still river, Millet's woman with a rake, Corot's reader in a grey green light. Oaks, ponds, animals on the road to market, and wide, low skies over all of it.
As a puzzle
A patient build. The trees are painted as soft masses of brown and green rather than as leaves, so the woods come together by tone more than by shape, and the skies are wide and nearly even. Start from the figures, the animals and the water, where the light catches, and keep the count moderate.
A good size here: 50–200 pieces.
Painters here: Théodore RousseauCamille Corot
Subjects here: LandscapesRivers and LakesEveryday LifeAnimalsNightSacred Art
21 pictures, pick one to build
Hagar in the Wilderness Camille Corot, 1835 
The Burning of Sodom (formerly "The Destruction of Sodom") Camille Corot, 1843 and 1857 
A Woman Reading Camille Corot, 1869 and 1870 
The Forest in Winter at Sunset Théodore Rousseau, ca. 1846–67 
A River in a Meadow Théodore Rousseau, ca. 1840 
Landscape with Figures (Les Bohémiens) Camille Corot, 1872 
Going to Market Constant Troyon, 1860 
The Letter Camille Corot, ca. 1865 
The Hamlet of Optevoz Charles-François Daubigny, ca. 1852 
The Pond (La Mare) Théodore Rousseau, 1855 
Woman with a Rake Jean-François Millet, probably 1856–57 
The Rocky Path in the Morvan (Chemin des roches dans le Morvan) Henri-Joseph Harpignies, 1869 
Diana and Actaeon (Diana Surprised in Her Bath) Camille Corot, 1836 
Landscape with Ducks Charles-François Daubigny, 1872 
Figures and a Dog in a Landscape Narcisse-Virgile Diaz de la Peña, 1852 
Retreat from the Storm Jean-François Millet, ca. 1846 
Valley of the River Loire Jules Dupré 
A River Landscape Théodore Rousseau, ca. 1845–50 
Sunset near Arbonne Théodore Rousseau, ca. 1860–65 
The Edge of the Woods at Monts-Girard, Fontainebleau Forest Théodore Rousseau, 1852–54 
An Early Summer Morning in the Forest of Fontainebleau Théodore Rousseau, probably 1861