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Thèodore Rousseau (1812 – 1867) was a French Realist painter. He was the leader of the Barbizon School. He was introduced to art by his sculptor uncle, Lemaire and his cousin, landscape painter, Pierre-Alexandre Pau de Saint-Martin. Rousseau studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. At the Louvre, he copied landscape works of Claude Lorrain, Ruysdael, John Constable and Bonington. From the 1830s onwards, Rousseau became a passionate and appreciative interpreter of nature. [1]
In 1848, fascinated by the forest of Fontainebleau, he took up his residence in Barbizon to paint nature directly. In 1855, he had a great success at the Universal Exhibition. Rousseau had a strong influence on the early careers of Monet, Alfred Sisley, Camille Pissarro and Renoir. Ibidem
Mont-Saint-Michel.
Soleil couchant.
Maison-atelier a Barbizon.
Pond at the Edge of a Wood.
The Edge of the Woods at Monts-Girard, Fontainebleau Forest.
An Avenue, Isle-Adam forest, 1846-1849.
At the 1849 Salon, Theodore Rousseau was commended with a first place medal, and he was made Chevalier of the Legion of Honor in 1852, due to his ability of painting in the "Naturalist" style. In 1866 he was again elected to the Salon jury and the next year he was made President of the Jury of the Exposition Universelle. In 1867, Rousseau exhibited several pictures at the Exposition Universelle, receiving the Medal of Honor.