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The quintessential Barbizon artist, Rousseau was romantically in love with nature. He spent the better part of twenty years living in near poverty in a cottage in the village of Barbizon, painting in a converted barn. The Fisherman is an early drawing by the artist, probably executed on the outskirts of Paris. The tree, the foreground grasses and rocks, and the humble form of the fisherman at rest are rendered with great specificity. Rousseau thought of each tree in the Forest of Fontainebleau as being almost human, each marked by a particular fate and struggle.
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Document identity
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149946
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The Fisherman (Le Pêcheur)
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149946
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drawing
title
The Fisherman (Le Pêcheur)
description
The quintessential Barbizon artist, Rousseau was romantically in love with nature. He spent the better part of twenty years living in near poverty in a cottage in the village of Barbizon, painting in a converted barn. The Fisherman is an early drawing by the artist, probably executed on the outskirts of Paris. The tree, the foreground grasses and rocks, and the humble form of the fisherman at rest are rendered with great specificity. Rousseau thought of each tree in the Forest of Fontainebleau as being almost human, each marked by a particular fate and struggle.
date
c. 1840–45
citation
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CC0
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CC0
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en
wikidata
Q79931805
creators
1594
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Drawing
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Sheet: 20.9 x 28 cm (8 1/4 x 11 in.); Secondary Support: 20.9 x 28 cm (8 1/4 x 11 in.); Tertiary Support: 29.6 x 37.9 cm (11 5/8 x 14 15/16 in.)
cul
France, 19th century
accession
1980.18
Source extras
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pen and brown ink and brush, gray and black wash (scratched away in places), with touches of pink watercolor
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The Fisherman (Le Pêcheur), c. 1840–45. Théodore Rousseau (French, 1812–1867). Pen and brown ink and brush, gray and black wash (scratched away in places), with touches of pink watercolor; sheet: 20.9 x 28 cm (8 1/4 x 11 in.); secondary support: 20.9 x 28 cm (8 1/4 x 11 in.); tertiary support: 29.6 x 37.9 cm (11 5/8 x 14 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1980.18
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description
beige(1) wove paper laid down on brown wove paper perimeter mounted to a false margin of beige(1) wove paper
collection
DR - French
inscriptions
inscription
signed, lower left, in brown ink: TH. Rousseau ; VERSO OF SECONDARY SUPPORT, upper left, in graphite: 2830 [circled] ; upper left, in graphite: Th Rousseau / The Fisherman / id. x. x. ; upper left, in graphite: 52149 ; VERSO OF TERTIARY SUPPORT, upper right, in black fiber-tipped pen: D 19 [sideways]
citations
citation
Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1980.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 68, no. 6 (June 1981): 163–219.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 195; Mentioned: p. 217, no. 231
citation
Allan, Scott and Édouard Kopp. <em>Unruly Nature: The Landscapes of Théodore Rousseau.</em> Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2016.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 111, plate 23; Mentioned: p. 170
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John L. Severance Fund
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2026-05-29 07:44:03.045000
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149946
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Drawings
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DR - French
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pen and brown ink and brush, gray and black wash (scratched away in places), with touches of pink watercolor
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