Cleveland Museum of Art
The Fisherman (Le Pêcheur)
Théodore RousseauLinkedCulture matchlcp-cbf15c89f6bd
- Date
- c. 1840–45
- Medium
- pen and brown ink and brush, gray and black wash (scratched away in places), with touches of pink watercolor
- Culture
- France, 19th century
- Department
- Drawings
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 149946
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
The quintessential Barbizon artist, Rousseau was romantically in love with nature. He spent the better part of twenty years living in near poverty in a cottage in the village of Barbizon, painting in a converted barn. The Fisherman is an early drawing by the artist, probably executed on the outskirts of Paris. The tree, the foreground grasses and rocks, and the humble form of the fisherman at rest are rendered with great specificity. Rousseau thought of each tree in the Forest of Fontainebleau as being almost human, each marked by a particular fate and struggle.
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- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Provenance
- [Schaeffer Galleries, New York]
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