Trees
Théodore Rousseau
French, 1812–1867

Details
Title
Trees
Artist/Maker
Théodore Rousseau (French, 1812–1867)
Date
ca. 1845
Medium
Graphite on white wove paper
Dimensions
10 13/16 x 14 3/4 inches
Credit
Gift of Hildegard and Clyde Ryals
Accession #
2007.158
On View
Currently not on view
In this drawing, the standing trees lean toward the fallen in an almost human manner. Rousseau was deeply concerned about tree cutting in the forests of France and was an early advocate of preservation. He was the most important landscape painter of the Barbizon School—a group of artists whose work focused on the countryside in and around the forest of Fontainebleau (south of Paris). Although Rousseau’s landscapes often include humans or animals, trees usually dominate his compositions.
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