biography
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Rousseau, (Pierre Etienne) Théodore
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pronunciation:
[roosoh]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1812–67)
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| biography:
| Landscape painter, born in Paris, France. He studied the old masters in the Louvre, and by 1833 had begun sketching in the Forest of Fontainebleau. His ‘Forest of Compiègne’ (1834) was bought by the Duc d'Orléans, but some 12 years of discouragement followed. During the 1840s he settled at Barbizon, where he worked with a group of other painters, becoming leader of the Barbizon school. From the 1850s his work became increasingly accepted. |
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