Oil on board painting by Narcisse Virgilio Diaz de la Pena, 1807 to 1876, a French painter of the Barbizon school. The artwork depicts a forest landscape. Signed by the artist in the lower left. Inscription Ecole Barbizon, N. Diaz de la Pena in pencil on the backside. Unframed. In the period from 1830s to 1870s a group of artists, including Theodore Rousseau and Jean-Francois Millet, worked in the French village of Barbizon on the western edge of the forest of Fontainebleau. The painters colony, from which the intimate landscape painting or paysage intime originated, can be considered a precursor of Impressionism. Collectible European Fine Art, Nature Landscape.