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Théodore Rousseau
Étienne Pierre Théodore Rousseau was a French painter of the Barbizon School.
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culture · French painter (1812–1867) · painter · photographer · draftsperson · printmaker · visual artist · graphic artist · also Théodore Rousseau, Pierre Étienne Théodore Rousseau, Pierre-Étienne-Théodore Rousseau, Pierre Etienne Théodore Rousseau, Theodore Rousseau, Etienne Pierre Theodore Rousseau
Born 15 April 1812 · Died 22 December 1867 · Q310025
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2025· 2 entries
MutualArt.com: Théodore Rousseau
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2024· 1 entry
Le Parisien: Théodore Rousseau exposé au Petit Palais : l’homme des bois sort de l’ombre
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2016· 1 entry
Los Angeles Times: Review: Getty exhibition makes a case for the enduring power of Theodore Rousseau
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2014· 2 entries
Hyperallergic: “Tormented by Several Devils”: Théodore Rousseau’s Wild Styles
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Exhibition at the Morgan Library & Museum
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2004· 1 entry
Le Parisien: Retrouvez Théodore Rousseau à Barbizon
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1867· 5 entries
Died 1867-12-22.
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Awarded Officer of the Legion of Honour (1867).
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“What has art to do with those things [Revolution, socialism]? Art will never come except from some little disregarded corner where some isolated man is studying the mysteries of nature, fully assured that the answer which he finds and which is good for him is good also for humanity, whatever may be the number of succeeding generations.”
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“I thought only of one thing, to account to myself for the laws of light and perspective. I did not attach any importance to what they found original, new and romantic in me, I sought the picture.”
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“The tree which rustles and the heather which grows are for me the grand history, that which will not change. If I speak well their language, I shall have spoken well the language of all times.”
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1863· 1 entry
Making sketches of Mont Blanc, he became dangerously ill with inflammation of the lungs; and when he returned to Barbizon he suffered from insomnia and became gradually weakened
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1861· 1 entry
Contemplated leaving Paris for Amsterdam or London, or even New York
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1852· 1 entry
Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (1852).
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1851· 1 entry
After the reorganization of the Salon of 1848, he exhibited his masterpiece, The Edge of the Forest (also in the Louvre), a picture similar in treatment to, but slightly varied in subject from, the composition called A G
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1848· 1 entry
Took up his residence in the forest village, and spent most of his remaining days in the vicinity
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1836· 1 entry
His great work Paysage du Jura [La descente des vaches] was rejected by the Salon jury
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1812· 1 entry
Born 1812-04-15.
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