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Beautiful etching of "La Maison de Théodore Rousseau in Barbizon, in a wooden frame and provided with a passe partout. Signed in pencil.
Dimensions etching: 16.5 cm x 12 cm (W x H) Frame dimensions: 35.5 cm x 17 cm (W x H)
Théodore Rousseau (1812–1867) was a French painter and one of the most prominent members of the Barbizon School, a group of artists who settled in the village of Barbizon, near the Fontainebleau Forest, south of Paris, in the 19th century. These artists were known for their landscape paintings, in which they depicted nature in a realistic and often romantic manner. Marcel Jacque's etching of the House of Rousseau can be seen as an homage to the influence that Rousseau and the Barbizon School had on later generations of artists. In a sense, Marcel Jacque continued the tradition of capturing the natural beauty and historical significance of Barbizon, where artists such as Rousseau and Millet once worked.
Marcel Jacque (1906 – 1981) was a famous French artist of the Barbizon school of painting. Barbizon is the real birthplace of Plein Aire Impressionism. This gifted artist took the art of French Impressionism and added their own use of light in the natural environment.