Pierre Etienne Thц?odore Rousseau (Rousseau Pierre Etienne Theodore)

(1812-1867)
Born April 15, 1812 in Paris. He studied at the landscape painter Charles RemцЁn, then at the Guyon-Letera. Rousseau was associated with the romantic artist 1830. For now type in the vicinity of Granville, Russo received a medal at the Salon of 1834. After a jury in 1836 rejected his painting Descent cows from the high pastures Fosiya, Rousseau went to Barbizon, a village near the forest of Fontainebleau, by combining it around itself other landscape painters. Thus he became the leader of the Barbizon school of landscape painting. For his paintings characterized by careful study of nature. Majestic and harmonious balance of its landscapes reminiscent of works by Dutch masters 17. Russo died Dec. 22, 1867.