Apr 5, 2012

Stamps of France: Dauphiné Panorama


DAUPHINÉ PANORAMA


The school dauphinoise

It is known by the name school dauphinoise, a group of landscape painters of the late 19th century. This school has specialized in mountain scenery, majestic and spectacular.


Close to the Realist movement, sometimes accused of theoretical, the school dauphinoise enjoyed a certain vogue at the time for the mountain scenery.


The Dauphiné

The Dauphiné or Dauphiné Viennois is a former province in southeastern France, whose area roughly corresponded to that of the present departments of Isère, Drôme, and Hautes-Alpes.

The Dauphiné (also called Dauphiny in ancient English) was an independent state from 1040 to 1349, under the rule of the Counts of Albon, before joining the Kingdom of France. As a French province, it maintained its autonomy until 1457.




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