Panoramic Landscape near the River Moselle

Panoramic Landscape near the River Moselle by Théodore Rousseau

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 22.1 x 75.9 cm (8 11/16 x 29 7/8 in.) framed: 47.6 x 101 x 7 cm (18 3/4 x 39 3/4 x 2 3/4 in.)

Classification

Painting

Department

CF

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Chester Dale Fund

Accession Number

2003.40.1

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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