The artists do not appear in chronological order of birth, nor in alphabetical order.

A painter of French nationality, born in 1807 in Bordeaux, and died in 1876 in Menton, Narcisse Diaz de la Pena belonged to the Barbizon school of art.

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The first sculptor of the French animal school, Barye is considered an important link between 19th-century Romanticism and Realism. Barye first trained as a goldsmith with his father, then studied painting and sculpture at the École des Beaux-Arts.

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