In the Forest of Fontainbleau
Théodore Rousseau · c. 1850 · Charcoal, with stumping and black pastel, heightened with touches of white chalk, on dark tan wove paper, laid down on tan wood pulp board
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Marked public domain (CC0) by the Art Institute of Chicago.
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About this picture
In the Forest of Fontainbleau is a public-domain drawing by Théodore Rousseau, dated c. 1850. Charcoal, with stumping and black pastel, heightened with touches of white chalk, on dark tan wove paper, laid down on tan wood pulp board. The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
“In the Forest of Fontainbleau” (c. 1850) 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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