Detail View: The AMICA Library: In the Forest of Fontainbleau
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AMICA ID:
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AIC_.1967.487
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AMICA Library Year:
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2001
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Object Type:
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Drawings and Watercolors
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Creator Name:
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Rousseau, Theodore
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Creator Nationality:
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European; French
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Creator Role:
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Artist
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Creator Dates/Places:
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French; 1812-1867
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Creator Name-CRT:
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Théodore Rousseau
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Title:
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In the Forest of Fontainbleau
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Title Type:
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preferred
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View:
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full view
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Creation Date:
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=c. 1845 wkg J1978//=1850 wkg reg
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Creation Start Date:
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1835
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Creation End Date:
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1850
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Materials and Techniques:
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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.Remarks: The primary support and secondary board have numerous breaks/dents (DC 10/3/90)
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Classification Term:
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chalk
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Classification Term:
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Drawing
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Classification Term:
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Prints and Drawings
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Creation Place:
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Europe,France
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Dimensions:
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Height: 285 mm, Width: 424 mm
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AMICA Contributor:
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The Art Institute of Chicago
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Owner Location:
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Chicago, Illinois, USA
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ID Number:
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1967.487
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Credit Line:
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The Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of the Albert Kunstadter Family Foundation
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Rights:
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Context:
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The forest at Fontainebleau was a favorite subject of Barbizon artists, who were attracted 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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Related Image Identifier Link:
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AIC_.D14249.tif
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