Le Plaine de La Plante à Biau

Creator

French Artist · 1812–1867

From his boyhood, Théodore Rousseau passionately loved nature. He trained with academic landscapists, but his insistence on "keep[ing] in mind the virgin impression of nature" and painting pure landscape without a mythological theme earned him the hostility of France's academic establishment, making him both famous and poor. His unswerving determination to paint pure landscapes directly from natur