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Théodore Rousseau: Under the Birches, Evening Rousseau, Théodore: Peasant in the Forest of Fontainebleau
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Also Known As Pierre-Étienne-Théodore Rousseau
Born April 15, 1812 • Paris • France
Died December 22, 1867 (aged 55) • France
Notable Works “Evening Under the Birches”
Movement / Style Barbizon school • Romanticism • realism

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Théodore Rousseau: Under the Birches, Evening
Rousseau, Théodore: Peasant in the Forest of Fontainebleau
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William Morris Hunt.
William Morris Hunt
American painter
Charles-François Daubigny
French painter
Millet, Jean-François
Jean-François Millet
French painter [1814–1875]
Philip James de Loutherbourg
artist
J.M.W. Turner: The Fighting Temeraire Tugged to Her Last Berth to Be Broken Up, 1838
J.M.W. Turner
English painter
Runge, Philipp Otto: Red Currant
Philipp Otto Runge
German artist
Caspar David Friedrich: Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog
Caspar David Friedrich
German painter
Allston, Washington: Moonlit Landscape
Washington Allston
American painter and author
View of Cotopaxi, oil on canvas by Frederic Edwin Church, 1857; in The Art Institute of Chicago.
Frederic Edwin Church
American painter
Worthington Whittredge: The Trout Pool
Worthington Whittredge
American painter
Durand, Asher B.: The First Harvest in the Wilderness
Asher B. Durand
American artist
Richard Parkes Bonington: Grand Canal, Venice
Richard Parkes Bonington
British painter
Davies, Arthur B.
Arthur B. Davies
American painter
Anton Mauve
Dutch painter
Gustave Courbet
Gustave Courbet
French painter
Stormy Landscape, oil on panel by Narcisse-Virgile Diaz de la Peña, 1872; in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. 47.6 × 60.01 cm.
Narcisse-Virgile Diaz de la Peña
French painter
“The Duck Pond,” oil painting by Jules Dupré, c. 1846; in the Louvre, Paris
Jules Dupré
French artist
Eugène Delacroix: Liberty Leading the People
Eugène Delacroix
French artist
Théodore Géricault: The Raft of the Medusa
Théodore Géricault
French painter
Antoine-Jean Gros
French painter

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