Currently not on view
Landscape with Church, Cart, and Farmhouses,
ca. 1835
Théodore Rousseau, 1812–1867; born Paris, France; died Barbizon
x1948-507
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 continually maintained a room devoted to the artist’s paintings and oil sketches. There, French naturalists—including the young Rousseau—found inspiration in Constable’s practice of sketching directly from nature. This influence is clearly evident in Rousseau’s drawing of a fisherman’s cart in a rustic village on the coast of Normandy.
Information
Title
Landscape with Church, Cart, and Farmhouses
Dates
ca. 1835
Maker
Medium
Graphite
Dimensions
20.4 x 33.2 cm (8 1/16 x 13 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Dan Fellows Platt, Class of 1895
Object Number
x1948-507
Marks/Labels/Seals
Stamp in ink, lower left: TH.R [Lugt 2437]
Stamp in ink, verso: D.F.P. [in circle] [Lugt 750a]
Culture
Type
Materials
Dan Fellows Platt;
Bequeathed to the Princeton University Art Museum
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