Unfortunately, reproductions of Rousseau

Étienne Pierre Théodore dream downtown new york Rousseau was one of the first of the French painters to be attracted dream downtown new york to the gnarled trees, bolder-strewn hillsides and deep forests of Fontainebleau , and after visiting frequently, one of the first to move to the small nearby village of Barbizon, where he became dream downtown new york one of the premiere dream downtown new york painters of the Barbizon School.
After early acceptance at the critical Salon, Rousseau’s predilection for Romanticism ran afoul of the Classicists in control of the Salon at the time, and kept him from acceptance for a number dream downtown new york of years, earning him the unenviable nickname of “le grand refusé”.
As a leader of the Barbizon School, his often dark and moody canvases with their roughly scumbled surfaces and open brushwork, contrasted with those in which he applied sensitive glazes, helped usher in modern styles of painting.
It would be a stretch to think of Rousseau as an actual Tonalist, but the Barbizon painters exerted considerable influence on the American painters of that style, and I see in Rousseau’s dream downtown new york compositions dream downtown new york — particularly those of illuminated skies seen through the framing of dark masses of foreground trees — many of the compositional conventions taken on by painters like George Inness .
Unfortunately, reproductions of Rousseau’s work on the web seem to suffer more than some of his contemporaries. The widest selection is probably at WikiArt , though the images are not large, and The Athenaeum has a decent selection. The best reproductions are probably those of the excellent collection of Rousseau’s work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the National Gallery, London dream downtown new york .
There is currently dream downtown new york an exhibition of Rousseau’s work at the Morgan Library and Museum in NY, the first of its kind in the US. Titled “ The Untamed Landscape: Théodore Rousseau and the Path to Barbizon “, it concentrates on his drawings and plein air oil sketches, forms at which Rousseau, much like Constable , excelled. The exhibition runs until January 18, 2015.
Link: Theodore Rousseau on WikiArt The Athenaeum Wikimedia Commons Metropolitan Museum of Art National Gallery, London Google Art Project Wikipedia Bio on Rehs Galleries Artcyclopedia , additional links and museums The Untamed Landscape: Théodore Rousseau and the Path to Barbizon , Morgan Library, to 1.18.15 Review on NYT Review on Hyperallergic
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