Footpath in the Barbizonnières
Théodore Rousseau · 1864 · Pen and brown and black ink, with watercolor, over graphite, on ivory wove paper
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Marked public domain (CC0) by the Art Institute of Chicago.
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About this picture
Footpath in the Barbizonnières is a public-domain drawing by Théodore Rousseau, dated 1864. Pen and brown and black ink, with watercolor, over graphite, on ivory wove paper. The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
“Footpath in the Barbizonnières” (1864) is a landscape from his work in and around Fontainebleau, where he studied ordinary trees and weather outdoors.
About the artist
Théodore Rousseau (1812–1867) was a French landscape painter of the Barbizon group. He worked outdoors in the forest of Fontainebleau and argued for painting ordinary trees and weather as seriously as history pictures.
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