An Early Summer Morning in the Forest of Fontainebleau
Théodore Rousseau · probably 1861 · Oil on wood
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About this picture
An Early Summer Morning in the Forest of Fontainebleau is a public-domain painting by Théodore Rousseau, dated probably 1861. Oil on wood. The file comes from The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
“An Early Summer Morning in the Forest of Fontainebleau” (probably 1861) 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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