Fishing Boats at Granville
Théodore Rousseau · c. 1851–52 · Black crayon and graphite, with stumping, and touches of scraping, over traces of red chalk, on off-white laid paper
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Marked public domain (CC0) by the Art Institute of Chicago.
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About this picture
Fishing Boats at Granville is a public-domain drawing by Théodore Rousseau, dated c. 1851–52. Black crayon and graphite, with stumping, and touches of scraping, over traces of red chalk, on off-white laid paper. The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
“Fishing Boats at Granville” (c. 1851–52) 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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