Date : between 1850 and 1860
Material : Oil painting on wood
Acquisition : Lent by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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European Painting
Painting (Scène extérieure)
Area related
Fontainebleau (France)
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Rousseau was a leader of the Barbizon school of painters, Paris-based artists who regularly traveled southeast to the village of Barbizon in the forest of Fontainebleau. Inspired by seventeenth-century Dutch landscape painting, these artists turned away from more classical formulas of painting and tried to record nature as they saw it. The subtle light blue and ochre palette and small, intricate brush strokes lend texture, while the silhouette of an oak tree against the dusk sky strikes a dramatic note.
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