How many landscapes largely set the course for the graphic treatment of landscape until the end of the 19th century ?
French painters were slower to develop landscape painting , but from about the 1830s Jean - Baptiste - Camille Corot and other painters in the Barbizon School established a French landscape tradition that would become the most influential in Europe for a century , with the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists for the first time making landscape painting the main source of general stylistic innovation across all types of painting .