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- NAME: Pierre Étienne Théodore Rousseau
- OCCUPATION: Painter
- BIRTH DATE: April 15, 1812
- DEATH DATE: February 22, 1867
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Paris, France
- PLACE OF DEATH: Barbizon, France
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Théodore Rousseau is a French painter who was one of the first artists to paint landscapes out in the open air and depict it as a wild, unruly force.
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Originally from Paris, Théodore Rousseau was a French painter. By the age of 14, he had moved to the village of Barbizon and begun to a paint outdoors directly from nature, a novel practice at the time. He never studied formally but nevertheless, he became a leader of the Barbizon school of landscape painters. Rousseau was known for his ability to show nature as a wild and unruly force.© 2012 A+E Networks. All rights reserved.
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