Sentier du Dormoir de Lantara

The name Lantara refers to Simon Mathurin Lantara (1729–1778), a landscape painter active before the Barbizon School proper. His connection to this forest clearing was enough to preserve his name on the land long after his death — an early signal of how thoroughly painting and place became intertwined in this part of the forest. The dormoir itself no longer shelters animals, but the clearing retains the quality of a threshold: a room without walls, open to the sky, where the forest briefly pauses.