Updated October 2026 · ranked by our popularity score (searches, visits and orders for each work) · 154 works by Constant Troyon in our catalogue
In short
If you know one Constant Troyon painting, it's probably The Road to Market (1858), which hangs in the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Cattle Pasture In The Touraine (1853) and The Return from the Market (1855) round out the three pieces people recognise right away. Our catalogue has 154 works by Constant Troyon. Below are the 100 people know best, each with its year, where to find it and what makes it special.
A sunlit path cuts through a tunnel of dark, dense woodland. Travelers move along this dusty track, their figures riding donkeys or mules toward a hazy, luminous horizon. The air feels heavy with mist, blurring the distance into a pale, overcast glow. Earthy tones of ochre, sienna, and deep umber anchor the scene, grounding the movement of the livestock in the textured soil. Sheep move with woolly weight, their forms…
Cattle Pasture In The Touraine is an oil on canvas painted by Constant Troyon in 1853. The work emerges from the quietude of the French countryside, capturing a specific moment of rural existence. It belongs to the Barbizon school, a movement that sought the unvarnished essence of nature through direct observation.
A group of livestock and figures moves along a dirt path, returning from a market. The composition balances the heavy presence of animals on the right with an expansive, light-filled sky and a distant, hazy coastline on the left. Earthy browns, tans, and lush greens define the palette, grounding the scene in the naturalistic tones of rural life. The light is bright and directional, illuminating the central figures and casting…
In the heart of the nineteenth century, the French landscape movement found one of its most profound voices in Constant Troyon. His masterpiece, On the Way to the Market, serves as a breathtaking window into a bygone era of rural tranquility and rhythmic labor. The painting captures a moment of quiet purpose: a man, mounted upon his horse, guides a sprawling herd of cattle along a dusty, sun-drenched path. There…
The Turkey Keeper1850
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The Gooseherd1852
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Going to Market on a Misty Morning1851
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A Seated Basset Hound1855
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Going to Market1860 · Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Herd And Herdsmen At The Watering Place In The Wood1865
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Promenade
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Return from Work1855 · Scottish National Gallery
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The AnglerCalouste Gulbenkian Foundation
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Descent from Montmartre1850 · National Gallery of Art
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Pasture in Normandy1852 · Art Institute of Chicago
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Unfinished Study of Sheep1850 · Art Institute of Chicago
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Calf cows at the marl
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The Woodcutters1839 · Musée des Beaux-Arts de La Rochelle
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View at La Ferté-Saint-Aubin, near Orléans1837 · Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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Landscape with mill1835
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Saint-Cloud1835
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In the Forest of Meudon near Sèvres1846 · Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
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Meadow with Cows1845 · The Mesdag Collection
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Farm in Normandy1845 · Niedersächsisches Landesmuseum
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Landscape With A Foreground Of Meadowland1847 · Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
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The Silvery Gray Bull1845 · Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
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The Marsh1840 · Art Institute of Chicago
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Flock of sheep in the woods1845 · The Mesdag Collection
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Landscape with haycart1845 · The Mesdag Collection
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Cows and Calf at the Pond1850
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The Feed for the Hens1850
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Flock of Sheep1849
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The Morning1850
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Cows Grazing1850
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River Landscape with Figures1850
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The Return to the Farm1854 · Musée d'Orsay
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Seashore1850
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The Meeting of the Herds1854 · Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Cholet Native Name
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Cow Grazing Near a River Lined with Willows1850 · Musee des Beaux-Arts
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Vaches au paturage1853 · Aberdeen Art Gallery
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Watering Cattle1852 · Wallace Collection
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Wooded Landscape with Dogs and Dead Game1855 · Bowes Museum
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A Pasture in Normandy1854 · Manchester Art Gallery
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Red-and-white cow1853 · The Mesdag Collection
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Valley of the Tocques1855 · National Gallery of Ireland
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Berger et son troupeau1850 · Fitzwilliam Museum
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The Storm1852 · Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
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Cows at a watering hole1850
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Chickens in front of a farmhouse1855
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Cattle Grazing in Touraine1855 · Scottish National Gallery
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Guardian of turkeys1850 · National Museum of Fine Arts
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A Wooded Landscape1850 · Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
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Repose1850 · Walters Art Museum
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Strandgezicht met kaapstanders1852 · Rijksmuseum
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Sheep1854 · The Mesdag Collection
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Cattle and Sheep in a Landscape1855
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Hillside with Rocky Outcrops1852 · Brooklyn Museum
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Running dogs1853
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Landscape with Sheep1862 · Moravian Gallery in Brno
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Landscape Study1860 · Bavarian State Painting Collections
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Harvest on the Banks of the Seine, at Suresnes1856 · Musée d'Orsay
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Return from the Market1859 · The Mesdag Collection
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Landscape with Grazing Cows1863 · Museum Gouda
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Cattle and Sheep1857 · National Gallery of Ireland
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Landscape1857 · Fitzwilliam Museum
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Sheep and Shepherd1857 · Scottish National Gallery
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Coast near Villers1859 · Walters Art Museum
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Hound Pointing1860 · Museum of Fine Arts
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The Cowherd1860
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Sheep and Cattle1860 · USC Fisher Museum of Art
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Apple Harvest in Normandy1865 · Worcester Art Museum
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Pastoral Scene1860
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Cows and CowherdMuseum of Fine Arts
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Windmills
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Oxen at workPaisley Museum
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Landscape with CattleNational Museum Cardiff
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The Gamekeeper
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Fisherman
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Landscape With Cattle And SheepMinneapolis Institute of Art
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Goose Girl
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Oxen Plowing
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The Ferry CrossingNational Gallery of Ireland
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Afternoon Rendevous
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The Crossing Of The River
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A Clump Of TreesArt Institute of Chicago
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Path in a Small Wood
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The AnglerCalouste Gulbenkian Museum
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Cows in the Field1852 · Hermitage Museum
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Return of the Herd1860 · The Louvre
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The Ford1852 · The Louvre
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Watercourse in the woods1860
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SheepThe Mesdag Collection
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The Butterwoman
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A Last Summer Day, NormandyHaggin Museum
The four subjects that come up most often in these pieces, each with its best-known example.
The 8 museums that hold the most of the paintings on this page.
| Museum | City | Works by Constant Troyon | Paintings from this list |
|---|---|---|---|
 The Mesdag Collection |
The Hague | 7 | Meadow with Cows, Flock of sheep in the woods, Landscape with haycart |
 Art Institute of Chicago |
Chicago | 5 | The Road to Market, Pasture in Normandy, Unfinished Study of Sheep |
 National Gallery of Ireland |
Dublin City | 4 | Two Young Girls, Valley of the Tocques, Cattle and Sheep |
 Musée d'Orsay |
Paris | 6 | The Return from the Market, The Return to the Farm, Harvest on the Banks of the Seine, at Suresnes |
 Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen |
Rotterdam | 4 | The Silvery Gray Bull, The Storm, A Wooded Landscape |
 Scottish National Gallery |
Edinburgh | 3 | Return from Work, Cattle Grazing in Touraine, Sheep and Shepherd |
 Museum of Fine Arts |
Boston | 7 | Hound Pointing, Cows and Cowherd |
 Fitzwilliam Museum |
3 | Berger et son troupeau, Landscape |
Pick a decade to see its standout piece.
A sunlit path cuts through a tunnel of dark, dense woodland. Travelers move along this dusty track, their figures riding donkeys or mules toward a hazy, luminous horizon. The air feels heavy with mist, blurring the distance into a pale, overcast glow. Earthy tones of ochre, sienna, and deep umber anchor the scene, grounding the movement of the livestock in the textured soil. Sheep move with woolly weight, their forms…
Top of the list is The Road to Market (1858), Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Right behind it: Cattle Pasture In The Touraine (1853) and The Return from the Market (1855).
48 years old. Constant Troyon was born in 1810, and The Road to Market dates from 1858.
The Road to Market, Cattle Pasture In The Touraine, The Return from the Market, On the Way to the Market, The Bathers (Clearing in the Forest), The Barrier, Sheep, Returning from Market, Return at Dusk and Two Young Girls. You'll find the year and the museum of each in the list above.
We have 154 works by Constant Troyon in our catalogue, dated 1835 to 1865.
You'll find most of them in The Mesdag Collection (The Hague), Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago) and National Gallery of Ireland (Dublin City). The museum list above has the full breakdown.
In 1850s, more than any other time: 53 of the 100 pieces on this page date from then, The Road to Market among them.
The earliest piece here is Landscape with mill (1835); the most recent is Herd And Herdsmen At The Watering Place In The Wood (1865).
Landscape (8), Animals (7) and Trees (6), out of the 100 pieces on this page.
Oil On Canvas, used in 10 of the 100 pieces on this page.
Realism and Barbizon school, as you can see in the pieces on this page.
You can see 7 of the pieces on this page at the The Mesdag Collection, The Hague, including Meadow with Cows, Flock of sheep in the woods and Landscape with haycart.
Yes. Every painting on this page is available as a hand-painted oil reproduction or a print, in the size that suits you. Just open the painting's page to order.
