Rock Oaks
Medium
Etching on cream laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 12.5 × 16.7 cm (4 15/16 × 6 5/8 in.); Plate: 13.3 × 20.7 cm (5 1/4 × 8 3/16 in.); Sheet: 21 × 30 cm (8 5/16 × 11 13/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
4613
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...