Pheasantry in the Forest of Compiègne
- Date
- 1833
- Material
- Oil on canvas
- depicts
- Compiègne, Picardie region, France, Europe
- Classification
- Paintings
- Collection
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Current Location
- On View, Gallery 206
- Dimensions
- 20 7/8 × 25 5/8 in. (53 × 65.1 cm)
- Credit Line
- Funds given by Mr. and Mrs. John Peters MacCarthy; and Gift of Justina G. Catlin in memory of her husband, Daniel Catlin, by exchange
- Rights
- Public Domain
- Object Number
- 33:2016
NOTES
In this atmospheric moonlight scene, Théodore Rousseau depicted a pheasantry, or pheasant farm. Flecks of yellow paint at the bottom right suggest a pheasant in flight. The silhouetted forms of trees offer a flat, surface pattern while depth in the space is created by the detail of a cow drinking from a pond at back left. Rousseau painted this gestural work when he was only 21, demonstrating his early artistic talent. Due to his skill, Rousseau was considered the leading landscape painter of the Barbizon School, an artistic colony southeast of Paris.
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