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I love the way that, despite its small size, this painting gives you a sense of an expansive landscape.
This was painted when Rousseau was a young man, and his work was continuously rejected by the Paris Salon.
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Théodore Rousseau was one of the leading artists of the Barbizon School known for painting outdoors and careful observations of nature.
Rousseau was inspired by Dutch landscapes of the 17th century that he would have seen at the Louvre in Paris. His own interpretations, however, were less idealized. We see here, for example, that much of the vegetation had browned.