The Pond (La Mare), 1855, Oil on wood, 13 1/2 x 20 3/8 in. (34.3 x 51.8 cm), Paintings, Théodore Rousseau (French, Paris 1812–1867 Barbizon), Painted during the artist’s most productive period, this landscape demonstrates Rousseau’s ability to paint naturalistic detail and vast receding space on a small scale. Rousseau renders a distant view of the wooded landscape as he sets the cattle, human figure, and trees on the far side of the pond
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Pond, La Mare, 1855, Oil, wood, 13 1/2 x 20 3/8, 34.3 51.8 cm, Paintings, Théodore Rousseau, French, Paris, 1812–1867, Barbizon, Painted, artist, productive period, landscape demonstrates, ability, paint naturalistic, detail, vast receding, space, small scale, Rousseau renders, distant view, wooded landscape, sets, cattle, human figure, trees, far side, pond
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