Study and Head of a Soldier, recto; Bust of a Man in Exotic Costume, verso
Théodore Rousseau · 1825 · Brown ink and graphite on white wove paper
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Marked Public Domain by the Minneapolis Institute of Art.
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About this picture
Study and Head of a Soldier, recto; Bust of a Man in Exotic Costume, verso is a public-domain drawing by Théodore Rousseau, dated 1825. Brown ink and graphite on white wove paper. The file comes from Minneapolis Institute of Art.
“Study and Head of a Soldier, recto; Bust of a Man in Exotic Costume, verso” (1825) 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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