Troyon, Constant (1810–1865)

French painter. Influenced both by the Barbizon School and by Dutch art, he excelled as a painter of landscapes and cattle.

Troyon was the son of a painter at the Sèvres porcelain factory. Largely self-taught, he first won notice at the Salon with views of Sèvres and subsequently worked in Barbizon, being influenced by Théodore Rousseau and Jules Dupré. After 1848 and a visit to the Netherlands which introduced him to Aelbert Cuyp, he specialized in pictures of grazing cattle which were very successful, though not entirely in the spirit of the Barbizon School with which he is associated. He visited England 1853, and a sketchbook remains from the trip which records his impressions of pictures and scenes.