Leaving the Forest, Fontainebleau: Setting Sun
Théodore Rousseau (French, 1812–1867) · 1851 · oil on fabric
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About this picture
Leaving the Forest, Fontainebleau: Setting Sun is a CC0 painting by Théodore Rousseau (French, 1812–1867), dated 1851. Oil on fabric. The file comes from Cleveland Museum of Art.
“Leaving the Forest, Fontainebleau: Setting Sun” (1851) 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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