[From the Community Collection, a public trust in Agincourt, Iowa]
Unknown Artist (French; active mid-19th century)
Landscape—Barbizon School
1844 (dated but signed indistinctly)
oil on canvas (on the reverse of another painting) / 22 inches by 29 inches
A characteristic painting of the Barbizon School of the mid 19th century, this landscape is (arguably) far more interesting than the urban streetscape on the front of the canvas. The artist (whose name is illegible) made a judgment which work to show, but we modestly disagree.
This may be the only work in the Community Collection retrieved from the boulevard during Spring Clean-up. “One person’s trash….”