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A River Landscape

ca. 1845–50
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 802

In 1844, Rousseau visited the Landes region of southwestern France, whose flat terrain may have inspired the countryside depicted here. The scenery recalls the open plains and broad skies he had long admired in seventeenth-century Dutch landscape painting. The boatman and the path leading back to the farm among the trees indicate that this is a rustic place, if not quite wild.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: A River Landscape
  • Artist: Théodore Rousseau (French, Paris 1812–1867 Barbizon)
  • Date: ca. 1845–50
  • Medium: Oil on wood
  • Dimensions: 16 3/8 x 24 7/8 in. (41.6 x 63.2 cm)
  • Classification: Paintings
  • Credit Line: Bequest of Richard De Wolfe Brixey, 1943
  • Object Number: 43.86.7
  • Curatorial Department: European Paintings

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