COLLECTION NAME:
The AMICA Library
Record
AMICA ID:
AIC_.1967.487
AMICA Library Year:
2001
Object Type:
Drawings and Watercolors
Creator Name:
Rousseau, Theodore
Creator Nationality:
European; French
Creator Role:
Artist
Creator Dates/Places:
French; 1812-1867
Creator Name-CRT:
Théodore Rousseau
Title:
In the Forest of Fontainbleau
Title Type:
preferred
View:
full view
Creation Date:
=c. 1845 wkg J1978//=1850 wkg reg
Creation Start Date:
1835
Creation End Date:
1850
Materials and Techniques:
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)
Classification Term:
chalk
Classification Term:
Drawing
Classification Term:
Prints and Drawings
Creation Place:
Europe,France
Dimensions:
Height: 285 mm, Width: 424 mm
AMICA Contributor:
The Art Institute of Chicago
Owner Location:
Chicago, Illinois, USA
ID Number:
1967.487
Credit Line:
The Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of the Albert Kunstadter Family Foundation
Context:
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.
Related Image Identifier Link:
AIC_.D14249.tif
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