In the Forest of Fontainebleau
Creation period
1860s
Dimensions
64x54 cm
64х54
64х54
Technique
oil on canvas
Collection
Exhibition
9
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Theodore Rousseau
In the Forest of Fontainebleau
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The method of the viewer’s entrance into the landscape composition space is characteristic of many paintings of Theodore Rousseau. In his painting In the Forest of Fontainebleau, with the motif of a woman walking with a child, it is as if we find ourselves in the shadow of the trees, while sensing the special poetry of the forest all around us. The artist achieves exceptional expressiveness in his depiction of the light’s effect as it penetrates the thick foliage.
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Technique of painting
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In his desire to achieve color intensity, Rousseau repainted his work several times, often using bitumen – a paint that gives the brownish-greenish shade to the whole tonality. The bitumen caused many of the artist’s works to eventually darken, and now it is difficult to assess their original color schemes.
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Orgin
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This landscape was in the collection of Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev, whose literary descriptions of nature were akin to the poetry of the artist’s work. According to Pauline Viardot, this painting always hung in the writer’s office, and not long before his death was given to Sergey Mikhailovich Tretyakov.
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In the Forest of Fontainebleau
Creation period
1860s
Dimensions
64x54 cm
64х54
64х54
Technique
oil on canvas
Collection
Exhibition
9
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