Tip: move over the painting to use the lens.
Landscape
Théodore Rousseau · c. 1850
- Artist
- Théodore Rousseau (French, 1812–1867)
- Date
- c. 1850
- Medium
- Oil on panel
- Size
- 21.7 × 27 cm (8 9/16 × 10 5/8 in.); Framed: 51.2 × 55.6 × 8.3 cm (20 1/8 × 21 7/8 × 3 1/4 in.)
- Made in
- France
- Style
- nineteenth century
- Where to see it
- Art Institute of Chicago
Henry Field Memorial Collection · CC0 Public Domain · Art Institute of Chicago · image via Wikimedia Commons · see it at the museum ↗
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- The edges Look at what is half cut off at the borders.
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About Théodore Rousseau
Étienne Pierre Théodore Rousseau was a French painter of the Barbizon School.
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