Road in the Woods, Oil on canvas, 22 7/8 x 19 in. (58. 1 x 48. 3 cm), Paintings, Constant Troyon (French, Sevres 1810?1865 Paris), In this animated scene of a simple dirt track, the eye is led simultaneously upward to the left and downward to the right. Troyon adopted this dual perspective from seventeenth-century Dutch landscape painting, which vanguard French artists of his generation studied for naturalistic alternatives to the more formal, Italianate models favored by the Academy