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The Forest of Fontainebleau and the nearby village of Barbizon were key destinations for French landscape painters from the 1820s through the 1870s. These artists, known today as the Barbizon School, embraced the rich topography of their native countryside while rejecting time-honored idealizing conventions. Fontainebleau, with its rugged terrain and towering trees, became a veritable studio for the landscape painter, depicted here by Cicéri with walking stick in hand and rolled canvases strapped to his rucksack, presumably filled with sketching supplies to sustain a day’s work.
Artist in the Gorge aux Loups, Forest of Fontainebleau
Eugène Cicéri (French, 1813–1890)
1852
Medium/Technique
Oil on panel
Dimensions
47.3 x 37.1 cm (18 5/8 x 14 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Mrs. Edward Wheelwright
Accession Number13.460
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsPaintings
The Forest of Fontainebleau and the nearby village of Barbizon were key destinations for French landscape painters from the 1820s through the 1870s. These artists, known today as the Barbizon School, embraced the rich topography of their native countryside while rejecting time-honored idealizing conventions. Fontainebleau, with its rugged terrain and towering trees, became a veritable studio for the landscape painter, depicted here by Cicéri with walking stick in hand and rolled canvases strapped to his rucksack, presumably filled with sketching supplies to sustain a day’s work.
InscriptionsLower left: Eug Ciceri / 52
ProvenanceBy 1853, Edward Wheelwright (b. 1824 - d. 1900), Boston [see note]; by inheritance to his widow, Isaphene Moore Luyster Wheelwright (b. 1831 - d. 1907), Boston; 1913, bequest of Mrs. Edward Wheelwright to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 3, 1913)
NOTE: Lent to the Boston Athenaeum in 1853 as "Forest at Fontainebleau".
NOTE: Lent to the Boston Athenaeum in 1853 as "Forest at Fontainebleau".