Schetsje van boomstammen
Théodore Rousseau
1822 - 1867
Medium
paper
Dimensions
83; 128
About this artwork
Schenking van mevrouw A. Cohen Tervaert-Henny
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...