WRITTEN IN FRENCH
The painter Théodore Rousseau (1812-1867) quickly became passionate about nature, and more especially the forest. From the beginning, any human presence repels him, the overwhelming omnipresence of nature becomes his trademark. He can be considered a true proto-ecologist. In 1836...
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WRITTEN IN FRENCH
The painter Théodore Rousseau (1812-1867) quickly became passionate about nature, and more especially the forest. From the beginning, any human presence repels him, the overwhelming omnipresence of nature becomes his trademark. He can be considered a true proto-ecologist. In 1836, he settled in Barbizon, as Camille Corot had done before him and where, later, he would be joined by his friend Jean-François Millet. His consecration came to him in 1852, where he appeared as a great defender of the trees of Fontainebleau, a forest that he traveled in all directions. He was the greatest landscape painter of the 19th century , representing nature from sunrise to sunset: his crusade today takes a very contemporary turn. The exhibition brings together for the first time the painter's main masterpieces. "A naturalist constantly drawn towards the ideal", as Baudelaire wrote, Beaux Arts Éditions returns to the fundamental role he played in the affirmation of a new French school of landscape in the middle of the 19th century , opening the path to impressionism.
Exhibition at the Petit Palais, from March 5 to July 7, 2024
French
52 pages - March, 2024
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