# The Road to Market

- By: Constant Troyon (French, 1810–1865)
- Date: 1858–59
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Classification: Painting
- Dimensions: 92 × 73.4 cm (36 1/4 × 28 7/8 in.); Framed: 130.4 × 111.8 × 13.6 cm (51 3/8 × 44 × 5 3/8 in.)
- Culture: France
- Credit line: Henry Field Memorial Collection
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/896)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/6aaa3537-abbf-f49e-877f-4d8e8e4d50c2/full/!1780,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Two men—one on horseback, the other on foot—follow a woman carrying her child on a donkey. Together they lead a herd of sheep to a local market, aided by the dog standing watch to the right. The group emerges from the misty atmosphere of the early morning, the haze yellowed by the dusty path. Constant Troyon was drawn to images of animals more than most of his Barbizon School peers, who included Camille Corot and Jean-François Millet. Later in his career Troyon was celebrated as an animalier, a painter of animals.

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