Landscape with Boatman

Landscape with Boatman by Théodore Rousseau

Medium

oil on wood

Dimensions

overall: 19.4 x 26.3 cm (7 5/8 x 10 3/8 in.) framed: 39.4 x 46.4 x 5.7 cm (15 1/2 x 18 1/4 x 2 1/4 in.)

Classification

Painting

Department

CF

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Gift of R. Horace Gallatin

Accession Number

1949.1.10

About the Artist

Théodore Rousseau · 18121867

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...

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