# View of Saleve, near Geneva

- By: Théodore Rousseau (French, 1812–1867)
- Date: 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
- Credit line: Through prior gift of Henry Morgen, Ann G. Morgen, Meyer Wasser, and Ruth G. Wasser
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/193926)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/b7e9650f-fe31-1206-ec54-8b2f019b8621/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.

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