Rousseau, leader of the Barbizon painters, worked on this huge view of the Fontainebleau forest on and off for about twenty years and never considered it finished. Gnarled oaks stand black against a glowing winter sunset.
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The Forest in Winter at Sunset
Théodore Rousseau · The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Théodore Rousseau, ca. 1846–67. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Open Access (public domain).