Collections Database

Description:
landscape; architecture; water; town; outdoor

Label Text:
When he was sixteen years old, Théodore Rousseau painted "The Bridge at Moret." Already, he was at the center of a newly evolving artistic tradition in his country, soon to be called the Barbizon School. Its members were influenced largely by the works of the English landscapist John Constable. They were based not in Paris, but thirty miles away in the forest of Fontainebleau.

With "The Bridge at Moret" Rousseau displays his trademark ability to orchestrate a harmony between natural and man-made elements. There is a vibrancy in details such as the light that flickers across the stone wall atop the bridge and the clearly defined wedge of stones of the arches below.

Link to share this object record:
https://museums.fivecolleges.edu/detail.php?t=objects&type=ext&id_number=SC+1957.32

Research on objects in the collections, including provenance, is ongoing and may be incomplete. If you have additional information or would like to learn more about a particular object, please email fc-museums-web@fivecolleges.edu.