Theodore Rousseau. Étienne Pierre Théodore Rousseau was a French painter of the Barbizon school.
He was born in Paris, France in a bourgeois family.At first he received a basic level of training, but soon displayed aptitude for painting. Although his father regretted the decision at first, he became reconciled to his son forsaking business, and throughout the artist's career was a sympathizer with him in all his conflicts with the Paris Salon authorities.
Théodore Rousseau shared the difficulties of the romantic painters of 1830, in securing for their pictures a place in the annual Paris exhibition. The influence of classically trained artists was against them, and not until 1848 was Rousseau presented adequately to the public.
He had exhibited six works in the Salons of 1831, 1833, 1834 and 1835, but in 1836 his great work Paysage du Jura was rejected by the Salon jury. He sent a total of eight further works to the Salon between 1836 and 1841; and yet none of them were accepted.
Thereafter, he ceased sending work to the Salon until 1849, when all three of his submissions were accepted.He was not without champions in the press, and with the title of le grand refusé he became known through the writings of his friend Théophile Thoré, the critic who afterwards resided in England and wrote using the name Burger. During these years of artistic exile Rousseau produced some of his best pictures: The Che
He was born in Paris, France in a bourgeois family.At first he received a basic level of training, but soon displayed aptitude for painting. Although his father regretted the decision at first, he became reconciled to his son forsaking business, and throughout the artist's career was a sympathizer with him in all his conflicts with the Paris Salon authorities.
Théodore Rousseau shared the difficulties of the romantic painters of 1830, in securing for their pictures a place in the annual Paris exhibition. The influence of classically trained artists was against them, and not until 1848 was Rousseau presented adequately to the public.
He had exhibited six works in the Salons of 1831, 1833, 1834 and 1835, but in 1836 his great work Paysage du Jura was rejected by the Salon jury. He sent a total of eight further works to the Salon between 1836 and 1841; and yet none of them were accepted.
Thereafter, he ceased sending work to the Salon until 1849, when all three of his submissions were accepted.He was not without champions in the press, and with the title of le grand refusé he became known through the writings of his friend Théophile Thoré, the critic who afterwards resided in England and wrote using the name Burger. During these years of artistic exile Rousseau produced some of his best pictures: The Che
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