Art Institute of Chicago
In the Forest of Fontainbleau
Théodore RousseauLinkedCulture matchlcp-ca09e9a809a1
- Date
- c. 1850
- Medium
- Charcoal, with stumping and black pastel, heightened with touches of white chalk, on dark tan wove paper, laid down on tan wood pulp board
- Culture
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 27873
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
The forest at Fontainebleau was a favorite subject of Barbizon artists, who were by its beauty and its proximity to Paris. Rousseau, a premier Barbizon painter, was attacked by critics in the 1830s and 1840s for his humble farm and forest scenes, which they considered to be "vulgar." The two figures in this landscape may be Rousseau himself and the adopted daughter of George Sand; the two were engaged in 1845.
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- Credit line
- Harold Joachim Purchase Fund
- Provenance
- Sold by B. C. Holland, Chicago, to the Art Institute, 1967.
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- Object type
- AAT300033973
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