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    In the Forest of Fontainbleau
    Théodore Rousseau. In the Forest of Fontainbleau, c. 1850. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00002451

    In the Forest of Fontainbleau

    by Théodore Rousseau

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Provenance

    Sold by B. C. Holland, Chicago, to the Art Institute, 1967.

    Exhibition history

    Paris, Galerie Christian Aubay, June 1967, cat. 39. Paris, Musée du Louvre, "Dessins français de l’Art Institute de Chicago de Watteau à Picasso," October 15, 1976-January 17, 1977, n.p., cat. 44 (ill.). Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, "Französische Zeichnungen aus dem Art Institute of Chicago," February 10-April 10, 1977, pp. 96-97, cat. 45 (ill.). Munich, Bayerischen Staatsgemäldesammlungen and Haus der Kunst, "Corot, Courbet und die Maler von Barbizon: Les amis de la nature," February 2-April 21, 1996, pp. 367 (ill.) and 400, cat. C83. The Art Institute of Chicago, May 1, 1987-July 24, 1989. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Souvenirs of the Barbizon: Photographs, Paintings and Works on Paper", July 2 - September 25, 2011.

    Publications

    Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1979), no. 5F10. Michel Schulman, Théodore Rousseau 1812-1867: Catalogue Raisonné de l'œuvre Graphique (Paris, 1997), p. 239, no. 460 (ill.).

    Open-access museum data

    This record comes from the open-access collection data that the Art Institute of Chicago publishes for unrestricted use (Creative Commons Zero). Art Trackers shows a selection of the museum's published fields. The Art Institute of Chicago is not an Art Trackers client and has not reviewed or endorsed this page; the museum's own website is the authoritative record.

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Théodore Rousseau / French, 1812-1867
    Date
    c. 1850
    Medium
    Charcoal, with stumping and black pastel, heightened with touches of white chalk, on dark tan wove paper, laid down on tan wood pulp board
    Dimensions
    28.5 × 42.4 cm (11 1/4 × 16 3/4 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    chalk
    Place
    France
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Harold Joachim Purchase Fund
    Accession no.
    1967.487

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