Null Rousseau, Théodore
Paris 1812 - Barbizon 1867

26 x 41 cm

River landscape …

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Rousseau, Théodore Paris 1812 - Barbizon 1867 26 x 41 cm River landscape at evening light. Oil/panel, signed lower left. Formely from a Berlin collection.

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Rousseau, Théodore Paris 1812 - Barbizon 1867 26 x 41 cm River landscape at evening light. Oil/panel, signed lower left. Formely from a Berlin collection.

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Figure in an ancient forest, c. 1863. Oil on panel. Signed in red, Th Rousseau, lower left. The painting depicts a forest landscape with a tiny figure in red near a forest stream in an impenetrable forest surrounded by giant trees. 40,5 x 20,5 cm. Note: Théodore Rousseau was born in 1812 in Paris, the son of a tailor from the Jura region. Sent at thirteen to his father's native province, to do office work at a sawmill, he learned to know and love the forests of the Jura. On his return to Paris, having decided to become a landscape painter, he studied briefly with Charles Rémond (1795-1875), a painter of historical landscape, whose instruction he found unhelpful and whom he left, in 1828, for another, no less academic, master, the history painter Guillon-Lethière (1760-1832). He had meanwhile begun to sketch on his own at Saint-Cloud and in the forests of Compiègne and Fontainebleau. In 1829 he vainly tried to enter the academic competition for the Rome Prize for Historical Landscape. The following year, on a tour in the Auvergne, he painted his earliest, distinctly personal landscape studies, on which in 1831 he based his first Salon entry. From a voyage to Normandy in 1832, he returned with studies of sky and sea that he used for The Coast near Granville exhibited in 1833. The following year, a landscape of "Dutch" character, Edge of the Forest at Pierrefonds, was bought by the duc d'Orléans and won him a medal at the Salon. He had meanwhile joined a bohemian clique gathered around Théophile Thoré, an early socialist and future art critic, which included the "prophet" Ganneau, known as the Mapa, who preached ecstatic nature worship. Rousseau's association with these eccentrics and dissenters irritated the Salon authorities, who retaliated by rejecting his submissions. On a tour in the Jura in 1835 he conceived a vast, crowded composition, Descent of the Cattle from the Meadows, that occupied him for a year; it was emphatically rejected by the Salon of 1836. More rebuffs in the following years discouraged him from entering further work. Finding the Salon closed to him, he shifted to saleable subjects of modest scale, treated in a naturalist style. In search of motifs, he visited the forest of Fontainebleau, staying at Chailly in 1834 and, at Barbizon in 1836. In The Forest at Bas-Bréau (Louvre), begun in 1836 and completed in 1867 after many revisions, he presented nature in its irregular forms of growth and decay, without regard to conventions of formal arrangement, while in The Avenue of Chestnuts (Louvre), painted during 1837-1840, he composed a symmetrical view, animated by the writhings of interwoven branches that form a natural architecture. With Jules Dupré (1811-1889), his friend and painting companion in the 1840s, he explored the spacious plains of the Berry and Landes regions, which led him to develop a new compositional scheme, opening large skies and wide horizons behind trees formed of massive dots of color that suggest wind-stirred foliage. During 1845 and 1846 he shared a studio with Dupré in L'Isle-Adam. A contented bachelor until then, he was brought to the brink of matrimony in 1847 by the novelist George Sand who offered him the hand of her adopted daughter. Gossip, which Rousseau blamed on Dupré, frustrated the match. Deeply resentful, he withdrew to the village of Barbizon at the edge of the forest of Fontainebleau, accompanied by an ailing woman, Eliza Gros, with whom he shared the rest of his life. For purposes of business he kept a Paris address.

Röth, Philipp, 1841 Darmstadt - 1921 Munich, mixed media on paper, partially heightened with white, forest landscape, after the model of Théodore Rousseau (1812 Paris - 1867 Barbizon), signed lower right, inscribed lower left "nach Th. Rosseau", small format, sheet size approx. 15 cm x 20 cm, in a dark green passepartout measuring 25 cm x 30.5 cm, behind glass in frame

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Marius REINAUD (1795-1868), after Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780-1867) The Chevalier Granet Etching 26.5 x 21 cm. Signed, localized and dated in the plate: Ingres del. Roma 1812 Large stain.

Estim. 150 - 250 EUR

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