Who created "The Pond (La Mare)"?

The Pond (La Mare) was created by Théodore Rousseau in 1855.

What medium is "The Pond (La Mare)"?

The Pond (La Mare) is Oil on wood.

Is "The Pond (La Mare)" in the public domain?

Yes, The Pond (La Mare) is in the public domain and available for free download under CC0 license.

The Pond (La Mare)

Théodore Rousseau

1855

Medium

Oil on wood

Dimensions

13 1/2 × 20 3/8 in. (34.3 × 51.8 cm) Framed: 23 1/2 × 29 3/4 in. (59.7 × 75.6 cm)

Classification

Paintings

Department

Robert Lehman Collection

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Robert Lehman Collection, 1975

Accession Number

1975.1.205

Tags

Landscapes

Art Historical Context

Théodore Rousseau's *The Pond (La Mare, painted in 1855, visitors into the intimate world of a tranquil forest waterway. This oil on wood panel, measuring just 13½ × 20⅜ inches, captures the Barbizon master's profound love for nature. Housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Robert Lehman Collection since 1975, it Rousseau's commitment to depicting unidealized landscapes, a hallmark of the Barbizon School he helped lead. Rousseau, called the "father of modern landscape painting," rejected the dramatic, studio-polished vistas of Romanticism in favor of truthful, on-site observations. Created...

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...

The Pond (La Mare)

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