View of Saleve, near Geneva
Théodore Rousseau · 1834 · Oil on paper, mounted to canvas
Public domain
Marked public domain (CC0) by the Art Institute of Chicago.
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About this picture
View of Saleve, near Geneva is a public-domain painting by Théodore Rousseau, dated 1834. Oil on paper, mounted to canvas. The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
“View of Saleve, near Geneva” (1834) 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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