Unruly Nature: The Landscapes of Théodore Rousseau
Scott Allan and Édouard Kopp
With Line Clausen Pedersen
Théodore Rousseau (1812–1867), arguably the most important French landscape artist of the mid-nineteenth century and a leader of the so-called Barbizon School, occupies a crucial moment of transition from the idealizing effects of academic painting to the radically modern vision of the Impressionists. He was an experimental artist who rejected the traditional historical, biblical, or literary subject matter in favor of “unruly nature,” a Romantic naturalism that confounded his contemporaries with its “bizarre” compositional and coloristic innovations.
Lavishly illustrated and thoroughly documented, this volume includes five essays by experts in the field. Scott Allan and Édouard Kopp alternately examine Rousseau’s diverse techniques and working procedures as a painter and as a draftsman, as well as his art’s mixed economic and critical fortunes on the art market and at the Salon. Line Clausen Pedersen’s essay focuses on Mont Blanc Seen from La Faucille, Storm Effect, an early touchstone for the artist and a spectacular example of the Romantic sublime in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek’s collection.
This catalogue accompanies an eponymous exhibition on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum from June 21 to September 11, 2016, and at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek from October 13, 2016, to January 8, 2017.
Scott Allan is associate curator of paintings at the J. Paul Getty Museum. Édouard Kopp is associate curator of drawings at the Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA. Line Clausen Pedersen is curator of modern art at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen.
“[This] excellent catalogue … guide[s] us a considerable way down the path to enlightenment.”
—Burlington Magazine
“Lavishly illustrated… highly recommended.”
—Choice
224 pages
9 1/2 x 11 inches
164 color and 10 b/w
illustrations
ISBN 978-1-60606-477-1
hardcover
Getty Publications
Imprint: J. Paul Getty Museum
2016
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Scott Allan and Édouard Kopp
With Line Clausen Pedersen
Théodore Rousseau (1812–1867), arguably the most important French landscape artist of the mid-nineteenth century and a leader of the so-called Barbizon School, occupies a crucial moment of transition from the idealizing effects of academic painting to the radically modern vision of the Impressionists. He was an experimental artist who rejected the traditional historical, biblical, or literary subject matter in favor of “unruly nature,” a Romantic naturalism that confounded his contemporaries with its “bizarre” compositional and coloristic innovations.
Lavishly illustrated and thoroughly documented, this volume includes five essays by experts in the field. Scott Allan and Édouard Kopp alternately examine Rousseau’s diverse techniques and working procedures as a painter and as a draftsman, as well as his art’s mixed economic and critical fortunes on the art market and at the Salon. Line Clausen Pedersen’s essay focuses on Mont Blanc Seen from La Faucille, Storm Effect, an early touchstone for the artist and a spectacular example of the Romantic sublime in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek’s collection.
This catalogue accompanies an eponymous exhibition on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum from June 21 to September 11, 2016, and at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek from October 13, 2016, to January 8, 2017.
Scott Allan is associate curator of paintings at the J. Paul Getty Museum. Édouard Kopp is associate curator of drawings at the Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA. Line Clausen Pedersen is curator of modern art at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen.
“[This] excellent catalogue … guide[s] us a considerable way down the path to enlightenment.”
—Burlington Magazine
“Lavishly illustrated… highly recommended.”
—Choice
224 pages
9 1/2 x 11 inches
164 color and 10 b/w
illustrations
ISBN 978-1-60606-477-1
hardcover
Getty Publications
Imprint: J. Paul Getty Museum
2016
