An Old Chapel in a Valley
Théodore Rousseau · ca. 1835 · Oil on wood
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About this picture
An Old Chapel in a Valley is a public-domain painting by Théodore Rousseau, dated ca. 1835. Oil on wood. The file comes from The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
“An Old Chapel in a Valley” (ca. 1835) 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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