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List of illustrations

  • The Avenue of Chestnuts
  • The Avenue of Chestnuts
  • An Avenue, l'Isle-Adam Forest
  • The Hay Wain
  • Forest of Fontainebleau
  • A Morning, Dance of the Nymphs
  • Edge of the Forest of Fontainebleau, Sunset
  • Landscape
  • The Banks of the Bouzanne River
  • Morning
  • Springtime
  • Morning Effect
  • Disembarkation of Cleopatra at Tarsus
  • Dido Building Carthage
  • A Boat Passing a Lock
  • Hoarfrost
  • Summer Sunset
  • Oak Trees in the Gorge of Apremont
  • Rural Dance
  • Stour Valley and Dedham Church
  • Early Spring, near Mantes
  • Pond at the Foot of the Slope
  • The Village of Becquiny
  • The Avenue at Middelharnis
  • The Footbridge
  • Diagram of The Footbridge by Théodore Rousseau
  • The Communal Oven
  • Under the Birches, Evening
  • Spring
  • A Tree in the Fontainebleau Forest
  • The Crooked Tree at the Carrefour de l'Epine
  • Fontainebleau, La Rageur
  • Landscape with Cattle
  • Forest View
  • Oaks on a Knoll
  • Old Oak
  • Fontainebleau
  • Sunny Days in the Forest
  • Flock of Sheep on the Edge of the Forest of Fontainebleau
  • Tree and Cows
  • Platière d'Arbonne
  • La Mare à Piat (or Mare à Dagneau)
  • The Roe Deer's Shelter in Winter
  • Stream of the Puits-Noir at Ornans
  • The Bodmer Oak, Fontainebleau Forest
  • View on the Outskirts of Granville
  • View of the Village of Pierrefonds
  • Cattle Descending the Jura
  • The Descent of the Cattle from the Haut-Jura Mountains
  • The Descent of the Cattle from the Haut-Jura Mountains, sketch
  • Mont Blanc Seen from La Faucille, Storm Effect
  • View of the Alps with the Mont Blanc Mountain Range as Seen from the Col de la Faucille
  • Lake Geneva seen from La Faucille
  • The Valley of Tiffauge
  • Le Fay, Berry
  • Brenne Plateau, northwest of Le Fay, Berry
  • The Pond by the Road, Farm in Berry
  • The Pond
  • Bégaar, Les Landes
  • Looking south to Pyrenees from plains northwest of Pau
  • A Marsh in Les Landes
  • Farm in Les Landes
  • Topographic Map of the Forest and Surroundings of Fontainebleau
  • Barbizon with forest in background
  • Topographic Map of the Forest and Surroundings of Fontainebleau, detail
  • Peasant Girl with Two Cows
  • A Watering Hole
  • Peasant Women with Brushwood
  • The Faggot-Gatherers
  • The Hills of Jean de Paris (Forest of Fontainebleau)
  • Edge of the Woods (Plain of Barbizon near Fontainebleau)
  • Winter Forest, detail
  • Inside the forest, known as Le Vieux Dormois du Bas-Bréau (Fontainebleau forest)
  • Felled Trees
  • Landscape, Forest Interior
  • A Wooded Landscape
  • Trees, Ile de Croissy (ébauche)
  • Edge of the Forest, Sun Setting
  • The Edge of the Woods at Monts-Girard, Fontainebleau Forest
  • Map Indicating Notable Sites and Viewpoints in the Forest of Fontainebleau, detail
  • Apremont Gorges and the Plain of Chailly: Seen from Monts-Girard
  • The Apremont Gorges
  • View of the Franchard Gorges, Eastern Side
  • The Gorges de Franchard
  • Map Indicating Notable Sites and Viewpoints in the Forest of Fontainebleau
  • Sunset near Arbonne
  • Fontainebleau and Mount Aigu, Seen from the Heights of the Gorge du Hoûx
  • Winter Forest
  • Winter Forest, sketch
  • Winter Forest, sketch
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Landscape is a relationship between people and the ambient world. Landscape paintings visualize this relationship, and their forms, varying tremendously from place to place, period to period, and person to person...
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The Avenue of Chestnuts (fig. 1) constructs a viewer gazing down a broad alley covered by a dense canopy of old, heavy tree limbs. Sunlight, coming in low from the left, pierces the two rows of stout trunks...
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It should be clear from the previous chapter that Rousseau’s obsessively systematic pictures do not reproduce spontaneous and unmediated perception. In the redundancy of his formulaic compositions...
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Sensier had never been to Auvergne himself when he wrote the above account of Rousseau’s first artistic journey, and he was writing, about 1869, twenty-three years after meeting Rousseau and thirty-nine years after the fact...
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When Rousseau began renting a house in Barbizon in the summer or fall of 1847, he was settling into an ordinary agricultural village no bigger than Bégaar where farmers and peasants went about their daily labor...
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What is most remarkable in Schelling’s discussion of art is not that he judged it to be the outcome of a more complex, and spiritual, organizational process than that of plants and animals...
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Appendix A: Catalogue of Key Works
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Appendix B: Rousseau’s Correspondence
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~This appendix summarizes Rousseau’s travels based on Sensier, Souvenirs [page numbers and my interpolations in brackets].c. 1824–27

Spent one year working for the director of a sawmill outside Besançon. [15–16]
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~Archival Sources
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Index
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