The Forest in Winter at Sunset
Théodore Rousseau
ca. 1846–67
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
64 x 102 3/8 in. (162.6 x 260 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Department
European Paintings
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of P. A. B. Widener, 1911
Accession Number
11.4
Tags
ForestsWinterEvening
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...