The Untamed Landscape: Théodore Rousseau and the Path to Barbizon

Giada Damen, Moore Curatorial Fellow, Drawings and Prints

Rousseau was a leading figure in the development of naturalist landscape in nineteenth-century France, and his paintings were admired for the ways in which they captured the visual characteristics of particular subjects as well as the viewer's subjective experience of the natural world. Amy Kurlander, independent art historian and guest curator of the exhibition The Untamed Landscape: Théodore Rousseau and the Path to Barbizon, will explore the different ways in which Rousseau understood and represented specific places in the course of his career.