With 100-odd paintings and drawings, this new retrospective at the Musée du Petit Palais in Paris explores different aspects of the work of this landscape painter, a forerunner and rebel in several respects.
Théodore Rousseau (1812-1867), Une avenue, forêt de l’Isle-Adam, 1849, oil on canvas, 101 x 81.8 cm, Musée d’Orsay.
© RMN-Grand Palais (musée d’Orsay)/Hervé Lewandowski
From the very start, the staging (designed by Cros & Patras) immerses us in the heart of the subject: the forest, and more specifically the forest of Fontainebleau. The forest was a lifelong theme for Rousseau (1812-1867), who claimed to hear “the voice of the trees”. Divided into chronological, themed sections, the exhibition takes visitors through the extraordinary career of an artist who was a dissident and revolutionary in several ways. The first section focuses on the beginnings of a painter whose artistic career took off at an early age. At 14, he entered the studio of landscape painter Joseph…
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