Théodore Rousseau

Born in Paris in 1812, Étienne Pierre Théodore Rousseau showed an early aptitude for painting, eventually convincing his bourgeois family to support his artistic aspirations. He emerged during a period when Romantic painters struggled against the established, classically trained artists who dominated the annual Paris Salon. Despite exhibiting six works between 1831 and 1835, his significant painting, *Paysage du Jura [La descente des vaches]*, was rejected in 1836, leading t…