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Description: | Signed: yes Description: This relatively large landscape was painted in an area of the Forest of Fontainebleau known as Les Gorges d'Apremont. We see a wide sweep of countryside, the artist subtly capturing the effect of warm sunlight and creating the feeling of the stillness of a summer day. Rousseau never felt the need to populate his landscapes and has only included the tiny figure seen here to help establish a sense of scale. A letter in the museum's archive contains a helpful description of the rather unusual appearance of this painting: 'With the exception of the sky, which is painted very deliberately, and in moderate impasto [thick strokes of paint], in various shades of blue and green, the rest of the canvas is brushed in thinly, but vigorously, in umber, with considerable staining in diluted viridian, the lighted parts in yellow ochre, and with a few minor touches in red.' | Subjects: | landscape | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Rousseau, Théodore (French painter, 1812-1867) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8304... | Go to resource |
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