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Rousseau, Théodore

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Rousseau, Théodore (1812–67) French painter, leading member of the Barbizon school. He was a pioneer of the open-air movement in landscape painting, and from 1836 worked in the Forest of Fontainebleau near Paris. His works include Under the Birches, Evening (1842–44).

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