Talk:Theodore Rousseau

He was known as 'le grand refusé', because of his systematic exclusion from the Paris Salon between 1836 and 1847 (in 1836 his work "La descente des vaches" was rejected).

This painting, L’Allée des Châtaigniers, was considered by his followers in this terms:

In 1841 he sent L’Allée des Châtaigniers (The Avenue of Chestnut Trees) to the Salon but he was rejected. Just over thirty years later, in the 1868 biography in Le Magasin Pittoresque, it was noted that “One has trouble understanding today how this Allée des Châtaigniers, so popular, so classic, simply so fresh and vigorous, could have been kept out of the exposition, refused by a jury.”

You may judge too if the jury was correct or no. --Joaquín Martínez 00:34, 23 March 2010 (EDT)