Théodore Rousseau

(French, 1812–1867)

Théodore Rousseau was a French artist and one of the leading figures in the Barbizon School, alongside Jean-François Millet and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. Staging himself in rural landscapes around France, Rousseau depicted brooding scenes such as The Forest in Winter at Sunset (1846-1867), with a range of brushstrokes and tonal colors. “It is better in art to be honest than clever,” he once remarked. Born Pierre-Étienne-Théodore Rousseau on April 15, 1812 in Paris, France, he began to paint as a teenager and later studied under Neoclassical artists. Despite his training, he based much of his style on the 17th-century Dutch landscape painters Jacob van Ruisdael and Meindert Hobbema. Beginning to work en plein air during the 1820s, Rousseau first travelled to the Forest of Fontainebleau southeast of Paris in 1833. He settled in Barbizon, a village on the outskirts of the forest, the artist began working alongside Corot, Charles-François Daubigny, Narcisse-Virgile Diaz de La Peña, and Millet. Throughout the subsequent years, Rousseau had a contentious relationship with the Paris Salon which often rejected his works. Along with the rest of the Barbizon School, Rousseau’s work had a profound impact on the development of the generation of painters who became the Impressionists. The artist died on December 22, 1867 in Barbizon, France. Today, his works are held in the collections of the Louvre Museum in Paris, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, among others.

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Arbres et rochers, paysage en forêt de...

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Étude de rochers

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Étude de rochers

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Près du Falgoux rochers à pic, Cantal

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Près du Falgoux rochers à pic, Cantal

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La mare

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La Salève et l'Arve près de Genève, 1834–1834

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La Salève et l'Arve près de Genève, 1834–1834

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Chemin à ornières dans la lande de Barbizon

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Chemin à ornières dans la lande de Barbizon

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Chaumière en sous-bois vers la lande aux genêts

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Chaumière en sous-bois vers la lande aux genêts

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Paysage rocheux

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Paysage rocheux

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Gardien de moutons

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Gardien de moutons

Sale Date: March 2, 2004

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An extensive landscape with a large tree, 1837–1840

Théodore Rousseau

An extensive landscape with a large tree, 1837–1840

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View of the Seine at Bas-Meudon, 1843

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View of the Seine at Bas-Meudon, 1843

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Les bords de l'étang

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Les bords de l'étang

Sale Date: December 11, 2003

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Paysage de marais parsemé d'arbres

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Paysage de marais parsemé d'arbres

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Landscape at sunset, stormy skies

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Landscape at sunset, stormy skies

Sale Date: December 7, 2003

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Chênes de roche, 1861–1861

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Chênes de roche, 1861–1861

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Paysage rocheux

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Paysage rocheux

Sale Date: November 12, 2003

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Vue de la Place de la Concorde

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Vue de la Place de la Concorde

Sale Date: November 6, 2003

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Figures in a landscape

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Figures in a landscape

Sale Date: October 29, 2003

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Allée sous bois

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Allée sous bois

Sale Date: October 28, 2003

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Une cathédrale ruinée

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Une cathédrale ruinée

Sale Date: September 18, 2003

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Near Fontainebleau

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Near Fontainebleau

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Pêcheur sous un arbre pres d'une mare, 1855–1855

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Pêcheur sous un arbre pres d'une mare, 1855–1855

Sale Date: September 12, 2003

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Lisière de forêt, soleil couchant

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Lisière de forêt, soleil couchant

Sale Date: August 8, 2003

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A horseman at the brow of a hill, evening

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A horseman at the brow of a hill, evening

Sale Date: August 8, 2003

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