Giuseppe Palizzi (Lanciano (Chieti), 1812 - Paris, 1888) was an Italian painter. He moved to Naples in 1835 and enrolled at the Royal Institute of Fine Arts, where he came into contact with the painters of the Posillipo School, including Giacinto Gigante. He presented historical landscapes at the yearly shows, but strained relations with the academic world led him to leave Italy.

It was in 1844 that he settled at Passy in the region of Île-de-France on the edge of the forest of Fontainebleau. This became the primary subject of his painting, which developed in the direction of painstaking realism through the influence of the Barbizon School*, among other things. He kept in contact with his brother Filippo by letter and shared t...