An American offshoot of a school based in this place was led by William Morris Hunt, the namesake of the library of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this French village where a namesake art school was founded in the mid-1800s. Jean-François Millet and Camille Corot pioneered plein air techniques in the Forest of Fontainebleau near this village.
ANSWER: Barbizon [accept Barbizon school]
[10h] Corot’s View of the Forest of Fontainebleau portrays a woman lying on the ground performing this action. A painting by Jean-Honoré Fragonard depicts the side profile of a “young girl” in a yellow dress performing this action.
ANSWER: reading a book [accept A Young Girl Reading]
[10e] The Barbizon school signaled a trend towards this artistic movement in the mid-1800s, inspiring contemporaries within it like Gustave Courbet. This movement sought to portray subjects as true to form as possible.
ANSWER: realism [prompt on naturalism]
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