Chênes de Roche (Oaks and Rocks)
Chênes de Roche (Oaks and Rocks)

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Chênes de Roche (Oaks and Rocks),

1861

Théodore Rousseau, 1812–1867; born Paris, France; died Barbizon
Published by Auguste Delâtre, 1822–1907; born Paris, France; died Paris
x1935-1616
When the British artist John Constable was awarded a gold medal for his painting The Hay Wain in the Paris Salon of 1824, his reputation in France grew so rapidly that throughout the 1820s and 30s the Parisian art dealer John Arrowsmith maintained a room devoted to his paintings and oil sketches. There, French Naturalists-including the young Rousseau-found inspiration in Constable's practice of sketching directly from nature. One of only four prints ever produced by Rousseau, this impression of the etching Oaks and Rocks was published in 1861 in the canonical art history journal Gazette des beaux-arts.

Information

Title
Chênes de Roche (Oaks and Rocks)
Dates

1861

Maker
Théodore Rousseau
Published by Auguste Delâtre
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
plate: 13.4 x 21.1 cm. (5 1/4 x 8 5/16 in.) sheet: 18.3 x 26.5 cm (7 3/16 x 10 7/16 in.) frame: 40.7 × 53.2 × 3 cm (16 × 20 15/16 × 1 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum collection
Object Number
x1935-1616
Place Made

Europe, France, Paris

Inscription
Inscribed, signed, and dated in plate below image, lower left to right: Gazette de Beaux Arts/ Imp. Delatre Paris / Th. Rousseau, Mai 1861
Reference Numbers
Delteil 4
Culture
French, European
Type
etchings, prints
Materials
printing ink
Techniques
etching (printing process)
Subject
landscapes (representations), Nature, rock (inorganic material)

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