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friends with the first china manufacturer he met and worked steadily at his old business of decorator until he had accumulated enough funds to permit him to start again on his wanderings. Troyon was a favourite with Roqueplan, an artist of distinction eight years his See also:

SENIOR, NASSAU WILLIAM (1790-1864)

senior, and he became one of his pupils after receiving certain tuition from a painter, now quite unknown, named Riocreux. Roqueplan introduced Troyon to See also:

Rousseau, Jules See also:

DUPRE, JULES (1812-1889)

Dupre, and the other Barbizon painters, and in his pictures between 184o and 1847 he seemed to endeavour to follow in their footsteps. But as a landscapist Troyon would never have been recognized as a thorough See also:

MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

master, although his work of the See also:

period is marked with much sincerity and met with a certain success. It may be pointed out, however, that in one or two pure landscapes of the end of his life he achieved qualities of the highest See also:

ARTISTIC

artistic kind; but this was after lengthy experience as a See also:

CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

cattle painter, by which his talents had become thoroughly See also:

DEVELOPED

developed. In 1846 Troyon went to the See also:

NETHERLANDS

Netherlands, and at the See also:

HAGUE, THE (in Dutch, 's Gravenhage, or, abbreviated, den Haag; in Fr. La Haye; and in Late Lat. Haga Comitis)

Hague saw See also:

Paul See also:

Potter's' famous "Young See also:

Bull." From the studies he made of this picture, of See also:

CUYP

Cuyp's sunny landscapes, and brandt's See also:

NOBLE, SIR ANDREW (1832- )

noble masterpieces he' soon evolved a new method of painting, and it is only in See also:

WORKS

works produced after this time that Troyon's true individuality is revealed.

When he became conscious of his power as an animal painter he developed with rapidity and success, until his works became recognized as masterpieces in See also:

GREAT

Great See also:

BRITAIN (Gr. Hperavuml vi7vot, Bperravia; Lat. Britannia, rarely Britannia)

Britain and See also:

AMERICA

America, as well as in all countries of the See also:

CONTINENT (from Lat. continere, "to hold together "; hence " connected," " continuous ")

Continent. Success, however, came too late, for Troyon never quite believed in it himself, and even when he could command the See also:

MARKET (Lat. mercatus, trade or place of trade)

market of several countries he still grumbled loudly at the way the See also:

WORLD

world treated him. Yet he was decorated with the See also:

LEGION (Lat. legio)

Legion of See also:

HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

Honour, and five times received medals at the Paris See also:

SALON

Salon, while See also:

NAPOLEON

Napoleon III. was one of his patrons; and it is certain he was at least as financially successful as his Barbizon colleagues. Troyon died, unmarried, at Paris on the 21st of See also:

FEBRUARY

February 1865, after a See also:

TERM

term of clouded See also:

INTELLECT (Lat. intellectus, from intelligere, to understand)

intellect. All his famous pictures are of date between 185o and 1864, his earlier work being of comparatively little value. His See also:

MOTHER

mother, who survived him, instituted the Troyon See also:

PRIZE, or PRIZE OF WAR (Fr. prise, from prendre, to take)

prize for animal pictures at the tcole See also:

des See also:

BEAUX, CECILIA (1863– )

Beaux Arts. Troyon's work is fairly well known to the public through a number of large engravings from his pictures. In the See also:

Wallace See also:

GALLERY (through Ital. galleria, from Med. Lat. galeria, of which the origin is unknown)

Gallery in See also:

LONDON

London are " Watering Cattle " and " Cattle in Stormy See also:

WEATHER (O. Eng. weder; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Du. weder, Dan. veir, Icel. ve8r, and Ger. Wetter and Gewitter, storm; the root is wa- to blow, from which is derived " wind ")

Weather "; in the See also:

GLASGOW

Glasgow See also:

CORPORATION (from Lat. corporare, to form into a body, corpus, corporis)

Corporation Gallery is a " Landscape with Cattle "; the Louvre contains his famous " Oxen at Work " and " Returning to the See also:

FARM

Farm "; while the See also:

METROPOLITAN (Lat. metropolitanus, Gr. µnrpoiroXtrns)

Metropolitan Museum of See also:

Art and other galleries in America contain See also:

FINE

fine examples of his pictures. His " Vallee de la Toucque, See also:

NORMANDY

Normandy," is one of his greatest pictures; and at See also:

CHRISTIE, RICHARD COPLEY (183o–Igor)

Christie's See also:

sale-See also:

ROOM

room in 1902 the single figure of a cow in a landscape of but moderate quality fetched P7350. Emile See also:

van Marcke (1827–1891) was his best-known See also:

PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)

pupil. See H. Dumesnil, Constant Troyon: Souvenirs intimes (Paris, 1888); A.

Hustin, " Troyon," L'Art, pp. 77 and 85 (Paris, 1889); See also:

Albert See also:

Wolff, " Constant Troyon," La Capitale de fart (Paris, 1886) ; D. C. See also:

Thomson, The Barbizon School of Painters (London, 189o) ; " Constant Troyon," The Art See also:

Journal (1893), p. 22. (D. C.

End of Article: TROYON, CONSTANT (5810-1865)

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