View of Saleve, near Geneva
Théodore Rousseau (French, 1812–1867)
1834
- Medium
- Oil on paper, mounted to canvas
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- 39 × 62 cm (15 3/8 × 24 3/8 in.); Framed: 52.8 × 76.2 cm (20 3/4 × 30 in.)
- Culture
- France
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Through prior gift of Henry Morgen, Ann G. Morgen, Meyer Wasser, and Ruth G. Wasser
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
An ardent explorer of the remotest corners of France, Théodore Rousseau painted View of Salève, near Geneva during a three-month stay in the mountainous Jura region. Although his larger canvases were consistently excluded from the official Parisian art show known as the Salon, his smaller panoramic oil sketches found mainstream admirers. With a few deft strokes, Rousseau conveyed steep, rocky outcroppings; plains dotted with shrubs; and the luminosity of moisture-laden clouds and sky.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
