Landscape (A Grove of Trees Standing Near a River)
Théodore Rousseau
1828–67
Medium
Graphite on beige wove paper
Dimensions
7 3/8 x 6 in. (18.7 x 15.2 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Steven M. Kossak, 1994
Accession Number
1994.493
Tags
RiversLandscapesTrees
About the Artist
Théodore Rousseau · 1812–1867
Théodore Rousseau (1812–1867) was a French landscape painter and the leading figure of the Barbizon School, the group of artists who settled in the village of Barbizon near the Forest of Fontainebleau to paint directly from nature. Born in Paris, he showed precocious talent and studied under the academic painters Charles Rémond and Guillaume Guillon-Lethière, but quickly rejected classical landsca...