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TitleCattle Descending the Jura

Creator nameRousseau, Théodore

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1834–1835

Object typePainting

MaterialsUnknown

LocationMusée de Picardie, Amiens, France

Accession numberUnknown

SubjectsCattle in artBarbizon schoolLandscape painting, French

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2. Ecology and the Naturalist Discourse

Greg M. Thomas

Description: Art and Ecology in Nineteenth-Century France: The Landscapes of Théodore...

Art and Ecology in Nineteenth-Century France: The Landscapes of Théodore Rousseau

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...

Author

Greg M. Thomas

PublisherPrinceton University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.76-110

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00348.3

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Chapter subject tags:Ecology in artLandscape painting, French--19th centuryBarbizon schoolFontainebleau, Forest of (France)Naturalism in artRousseau, Théodore, 1812-1867

Catalogue

George T. M. Shackelford, Fronia E. Wissman

Impressions of Light: The French Landscape from Corot to Monet

Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes, born in Toulouse in 1750, was one of many French artists who went to Italy. These artists wanted to study the works of Renaissance masters and to absorb the flavor of the countryside around Rome that had inspired the great seventeenth-century French painters resident there, Claude Lorrain and Nicolas Poussin. Valenciennes went to Italy...

Author

George T. M. Shackelford, Fronia E. Wissman

PublisherMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston

Related print edition pages: pp.56-239

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00245.002

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-21134&redirecttoanchor=63856

Chapter subject tags:Landscape painting, FrenchBarbizon schoolLandscape photographyImpressionism (Art)--FrancePost-impressionism (Art)--France

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