Théodore Rousseau

Rousseau, Pierre Etienne Theodore

French, 1812 - 1867

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French painter (1812–1867)

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Théodore Rousseau, Chenes de Roche (Rock Oaks), 1861, etching on Japan pelure, Rosenwald Collection, 1964.8.1501

Chenes de Roche (Rock Oaks)

Théodore Rousseau · 1861 · etching on Japan pelure ·  Accession ID  1964.8.1501

Théodore Rousseau, Rock Oaks, 1861, etching on laid paper, Gift of Gaillard F. Ravenel and Frances P. Smyth-Ravenel, 2000.7.35

Rock Oaks

Théodore Rousseau · 1861 · etching on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2000.7.35

Théodore Rousseau, Countryside in Picardy, 1860, oil on canvas, Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection), 2015.19.47

Countryside in Picardy

Théodore Rousseau · 1860 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2015.19.47

Théodore Rousseau, Landscape with Boatman, c. 1860, oil on wood, Gift of R. Horace Gallatin, 1949.1.10

Landscape with Boatman

Théodore Rousseau · c. 1860 · oil on wood ·  Accession ID  1949.1.10

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The Old Oak

Théodore Rousseau · 1857 · oil on panel ·  Accession ID  2023.165.1

Théodore Rousseau, Le Cerisier de la Plante a Biau, 1855, cliché-verre, Andrew W. Mellon Fund, 1978.1.5

Le Cerisier de la Plante a Biau

Théodore Rousseau · 1855 · cliché-verre ·  Accession ID  1978.1.5

We look across a waterlogged path at a line of rust-red and bronze-brown trees that nearly span the width of this horizontal landscape painting. The scene is loosely painted, which creates a blurred look. The land closest to us is in shadow and many details are difficult to make out, but pockets of bright, ice blue suggest water reflecting the pale sky above. The trees across from us have thin, spindly trunks and billowing dark red and brown canopies. A few swipes of brown, crimson red, and white suggest a person, perhaps on horseback, and perhaps a second person, a child, on the path under the trees. A line of shadow falls just beyond the trees, and a strip of brightly lit green lawn stretches back to the horizon, which comes a third of the way up the painting. More trees lining the horizon in the distance have ash-white trunks and copper-pink leaves. The blue sky above is veiled with a screen of thin fog-gray and parchment-white clouds.
Théodore Rousseau, After the Rain, c. 1850, oil on canvas, Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection), 2014.136.43

After the Rain

Théodore Rousseau · c. 1850 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2014.136.43

Théodore Rousseau, Vue du Plateau de Bellecroix, 1848-1849, etching, Rosenwald Collection, 1953.6.119

Vue du Plateau de Bellecroix

Théodore Rousseau · 1848-1849 · etching ·  Accession ID  1953.6.119

Théodore Rousseau, Sunset from the Forest of Fontainebleau, 1848, oil on paper over black chalk or conté crayon, laid down on canvas, on stretcher , Gift of Helen Porter and James T. Dyke, 2003.70.1

Sunset from the Forest of Fontainebleau

Théodore Rousseau · 1848 · oil on paper over black chalk or conté crayon, laid down on canvas, on stretcher ·  Accession ID  2003.70.1

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Sunlight

Théodore Rousseau · c. 1848/1850 · oil on wood ·  Accession ID  2014.136.44

Bibliography

1872

  • Sensier, Alfred. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Jean-François Millet. Paris, 1872.

1910

  • Dorbec, Prosper. Théodore Rousseau. Paris, 1910.

1962

  • Herbert, Robert L. Barbizon Revisited. Exh. cat. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1962: 23-24, 27-29, 48, 54, 175-190, nos. 82-101.

1967

  • Théodore Rousseau (1812-1867). Exh. cat. Louvre, Paris, 1967.

1982

  • Green, Nicolas. Théodore Rousseau, 1812-1867. Exh. cat. Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts and Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, Norwich and London, 1982.

1987

  • Eitner, Lorenz. An Outline of 19th-Century European Painting, from David through Cézanne. 2 vols. New York, 1987-1988: 1:217-223, 2:pls. 204-210.

1996

  • Heilmann, Christoph, Michael Clarke, and John Sillevis. Corot, Courbet und die Maler von Barbizon: Les Amis de la nature. Exh. cat. Haus der Kunst, Munich, 1996: 298-329.

2000

  • Eitner, Lorenz. French Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part I: Before Impressionism. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 2000: 334-335.