Mountain Stream in the Auvergne
Medium
oil on paper on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 31 x 37 cm (12 3/16 x 14 9/16 in.) framed: 42.1 x 49.7 x 4.8 cm (16 9/16 x 19 9/16 x 1 7/8 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CF
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Chester Dale Fund
Accession Number
1997.24.1
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...